How to get info via API and view it in a webpage

[Chainer]

So I am new to the Photon/Particle platform (just got it yesterday) and tinkering in any real aspect. I’ve blinked LEDs on a few things in the past and that’s about it. However I decided I have an idea that is worth pursuing so here I am learning.

I’ve read through most of the guides at particle.io/start and have a basic understanding of what I am doing. I have some basic firmware pushed out that reads a pin and will send the value out to the cloud (using the photoresistor right now). Where I am running into problems is on the HTML and jQuery/Javascript side. I have played with javascript stuff in the past but lost most of it and never did anything interacting with API’s and am feeling lost.

I have my code up here https://github.com/thechainercygnus/fluffy-octo-moo/tree/master and would love any insight as to how I can do what I am attempting to do (again that’s read the Analog Value and then print it into the website as it updates)

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

[bko]

Hi @Chainer

Here is a tutorial I wrote that uses Spark variables and functions and has a complete read/write example:

Tutorial: Spark Variable and Function on One Web Page

Let’s say you have a Spark core with both a Spark variable and a Spark function. In my case, I have the world’s simplest servo control sketch, using the nice miniature servo in the Spark Maker Kit. Using these parts, we will build a servo that you can control from a web page anywhere and monitor the position of the servo too! Here’s a preview of the finished tutorial: [image] There is a coarse adjust slider, two fine adjust buttons, and the current position of the servo is displayed. That…

The basic idea is to read the variables every n seconds and update an HTML value with the read data.

[Chainer]

That did it. Thank you a ton. Pretty easy now that I see it.