Hi, Looking for some pointers please… Assuming I can get some data uploaded from things like temperature sensors etc, what/which tools/sites are considered the best for creating dashboards from that data? Cheers,

Ubidots, thingspeak, atomiot, azure, and numerous are some that pop up often. Have a look.

Another vote for Grafana. +1 My particular “Metrics stack” is SparkCore/Photon MQTT and mosquitto broker http://mosquitto.org/ mqttwarn https://github.com/jpmens/mqttwarn influxDB https://influxdata.com/ Grafana http://grafana.org/

What is your preferred way of hosting this stack ?

I use Grafana and InfluxDB, with the photon posting directly to InfluxDB. Works great, and it’s very easy to set up using docker containers!

Thanks for coming back with suggestions about what people use… are people using self hosted local servers or cloud hosted services? I’ve taken a look and the best I can see in terms of very low cost and length of storage of data is thethings.io who offer a single device for free and then 1 euro per…

Sure! Once you have docker properly installed, you start both containers like this: sudo docker run -d -p 8083:8083 -p 8086:8086 --name influxdb -e PRE_CREATE_DB="sensors" -v /media/nas/data/influxdb:/data --restart=unless-stopped tutum/influxdb:0.10 sudo docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name grafana -…

https://data.sparkfun.com/ maybe. You get 50MB of storage for free, which should be plenty for a year of solar data.

I’m glad someone mentioned posting directly to InfluxDB, I was going to suggest that. At the moment I run the mosquitto & mqttwarn parts of my stack on a local Raspberry Pi and the InfluxDB and Grafana parts on a cheep virtual server. You can get the whole stack onto a Raspberry PI 2 but it’s a lo…

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Can you share your recipe for configuring the influxdb and grafana containers to talk to each other and your favourite way of submitting data from a core/photon/electron to them ?

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