Hi,
Is there some historic reasoning behind why a Particle Variable is Readonly (Security issue or Not had time to implement, etc)? And cannot be set from the cloud (And can only be updated via a Particle Function)?
Steve
Presumably because the purpose of a Paritcle variable is so a Particle device can make a variable such as a sensor reading externally available to be read as required. A function by contrast is for doing things…
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It matches the REST terminology wherein a GET request is only able to read resources, but not change them. A POST request however is meant to change resources on the receiving end.
If you Google ‘RESTful’, you’ll find a much nicer explanation than the one I can give you 
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Yes, well where’s the equivalent PUT or POST then. But ok. I see the limitations and will use the call Function method as a hack.
Cheers
Particle.function() calls are POSTed - PUT endpoints are not implemented (yet).
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