Hello I’m new to particle and I’m having trouble understanding the process to develop firmware for the electron and the photon. Note: This is all about the software side not the hardware part.
I understand that I will write my code in the Web IDE what I don’t understand is how will my end users get the info from the unit to their phone(app created by us). Do I need to create a back end with user authentication and database or does particle provide a simpler way that I’m missing.
But how do I test the units without paying for the “organization” do I develop with my Electron like it is my end product or are there other steps I have to consider. how do I create simple authentication without paying the organization fee I’m not sure if I’m clear enough
I am also very new to Particle and have experienced the same frustration with finding the right documentation to lead me into building the software side of a product. Although the hardware side is more user friendly, the software side is like finding a needle in a hay stack.
I was able to get a few software features to work (e.g. getting an email from a Photon web-hook via Amazon Web Service SNS). I tried the iOS Tinker to connect my Photon to WiFi but I am unable to understand how the Tinker code works and with limited documentation its even harder.
I am not an engineer of any sort and Particle do not provide enough help on the software side to assist, I tried emailing an engineer from Particle with only a single response which didn’t address the question; and I am yet to receive a response from the last question I ask him.
I am welling to share with you what I have learned so far if your interested; by the way I spend over $200 in Particle products and even signed up for the organization website in trying to understand how to get my device to a customer. I still can’t figure out how this is done.
Maybe getting into the device for a "private" project first and after that thinking of using that knowledge for customer projects might be better.
I think what @Mkoder means is that even if we create a simple project for us we still don't understand the flow of development for the back end.
I have been doing some research and what I think is that particle wants the end product and the development boards to use the same workflow. I normally don't expect development/testing code to be the end product and that's why I think this is throwing me off
Thank you for your reply, I already have the private project and everything works fine. I now want to be able to set my device for use by a customer. The Tinker iOS app would not load on Xcode, they are a host of errors when I try to open the work space; and find very little help on the forum on the Tinker project.
Thank you for your response, I agree CocoaPods needs to be install in the directory of the project. I am familiar with how to do this, but even after CocoaPods is installed a host of error shows up when the work space is launch.
Where you able to launch Tinker iOS in Xcode without errors?
Hello I just try installing CocoaPods and creating a new project but I also get like 20 errors with this file AFURLResponseSerialization.h What error do you get?
What error do you get?