Publishing to an event

General
1

I have an electron that collects water quality data remotely. I need to find a way to send data values to the electron. I am planning on creating an event with particle webhooks and publishing files from my PC to the Particle cloud and then subscribing the Electron to the events. Do I need to have another device (Photon or Electron) to publish to an event?

2

Color,

Great question. The answer is no, you do not need another physical device to publish an event to the cloud. You can publish an event using the CLI (see https://github.com/spark/particle-cli#particle-publish) or using direct cloud calls (see https://docs.particle.io/reference/api/#publish-an-event)

3

@color
You should be able to publish events through any simple post web request. Just add the content to the post. I do the following in C#

var requestContent = new KeyValuePair<string, string>[] {
    new KeyValuePair<string, string> ("name", eventName),
    new KeyValuePair<string, string> ("data", data),
    new KeyValuePair<string, string> ("ttl", timeToLive.ToString()),
    new KeyValuePair<string, string> ("isPrivate", privateString),
};

try
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient(new NativeMessageHandler()))
    {
        var response = await client.PostAsync(
        "https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/events" + "?access_token=" + AccessToken.Token,
        new FormUrlEncodedContent(requestContent));

        var particleResponse = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

        if (particleResponse.Contains("\"ok\": true"))
            return "Ok";

        return "Error";
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
    }
4

Thank you, this is really helpful.