Hi all,
I’m using a boron in a low power application so I boot/shutdown every hour or so. when it wakes up I’d like it to know what it should do using a cloud variable. we could use a function but we would have to know that the boron is online…
What I can’t find is exactly how to update a variable from the rest api. Are the variables only a 1 way thing?
Not quite sure what you are after
But local variables exposed via Particle.variable() cannot be set from remote unless via a Particle.function() or a Particle.subscribe() handler.
If you want to set some limited amount of data for a device to retrieve from the cloud you can use device notes
In order to obtain the set data your device would need to subscribe to this even
Particle.subscribe("particle/device/notes", getNotes);
adn then request the data like this
Particle.publish("particle/device/notes");
Ah, thanks scruffr, this is what I want to do but I wouldn’t have thought of that… you’ve always got the solution:)
also, just to be clear- I’m assuming the notes are also in UTF-8 format ?
thanks, cc 
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