Customer Setup - Electron

[Kevin]

Continuing the discussion from High level overview - community product creation:

@Inventor

Hey all - I've read quite a bit of the particle.io site, and a few of the threads in this topic - and still think this could be clarified a bit to make it simpler for everyone to understand.

If I wanted to use particle/electron/etc to create a product - and basically have the data get to a hosted service, what is the flow?

1. User buys device from us? (which we've bought from the store and pre-flashed?)
2. They get device - and they have to create an account at particle, register the device, as themselves - then authorize us?
   2.5. How do we create webhooks at this point? Or can we get push notified to our server some other way every time their device sends data to the cloud?
3. If they want new firmware (electron) we could send that OTA somehow? (Is that the new management thingy that says coming soon?)

Trying to grasp which endpoints/sdk/etc we should care about - want to draft this up at a hackathon soon

The documentation is long and comprehensive - great, but somewhat difficult to comprehend for specific use cases.

It would be good to have a couple of worked through examples.

The lack of web support for customer setup of photons is a real pain, I would suspect it may be easier with the electron?

I am interested in 2 legged auth for the electron. What is the simplest approach? For example- can this be done via a web form (unlike the photon where this has been problematic and really requires a custom mobile app)?

[jeiden]

@Kevin,

Electron support for organizations is a focus of the team this sprint. It’s not yet available, but we’re beginning to work on it. The main complication/difference between our Wi-Fi products is integrating the cellular component into product creator tools.

Stay tuned,

Jeff