Hi, I am very new to Spark and before I commit myself to use this in my project, I want to know if it is possible to do what I have in mind. Here is what I am planning to do: Monitor a physical variable, like say, for example the water level of my water tank every minute. I want to log this inf…

@seemanta , since the Core cannot do https directly, you can now do GET/POSTs using webhooks . These allow you use use Spark.subcribe()/publish() to send or get data from any website to and from the Core. A neat new feature recently added is the ability to have the Cloud do a JSON parse on return da…

Can webhooks be used with the local cloud? I’m looking at using the Photon for monitoring some things, but security is an issue for me. So I need to be able to push data from the photon in real time, but I can’t use the public cloud. –anthony

@aaltieri , the local cloud does not yet support webhooks. However, webhooks and all related data is secured like all other public Cloud transactions.

Is there an ETA? I can’t have these devices connected to a public network at all. –anthony

@aaltieri , perhaps @Dave can clarify. If you cannot connect to a public network, you may want to consider using TCP only. If you search the forum, you will find examples like this one: [image] AES encryption demo and secure TCPClient usage Here’s a little demo that you can paste into …

Sorry, this might seem like a very stupid question, but what is a local cloud?

The “ local cloud ” is a version of the full Spark Cloud you can run on a local computer such as a Raspberry Pi for example. Though it does not support all the functions of the full Cloud, it can be used where internet connectivity to the Spark Cloud is not available or not desired. :smile:

This is very helpful, thanks! –anthony

Jeez, I am such an idiot. Thanks for answering my questions patiently :slight_smile: I appreciate it.

Hi @aaltieri , If you need this to be entirely local only and want to use the local cloud, you can always add something like webhooks behavior to the local cloud quickly. I’m hoping to sketch out a better interface for extending the local cloud, but if you installed it / got your core connected to …

Sending POST requests from the Core

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I really just need to do a PR to the main Particle repo so you don’t have to keep referencing our fork

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