Using the Electron with Third-party Servers Directly

[maciek]

Is it possible to use Electron with third-party servers directly with using particle cloud?

I was really hoping to be able to use the Electron in the same way I can use an Arduino with a SIM900 shield for example.

Sending http requests, TCP, UDP?

[developer_bt]

Yes of course you can use other servers.
You can use the http library.
It works great with Electron.
Also other libraries that are based on TCP Client you are free to use.

Spark Core Http Client Library

Hello, I’m just starting out with the Spark Core and found myself needing an HTTP Client Library to interact with my REST API. Unfortunately the libraries I found all seemed to rely on the Arduino Ethernet Library which made them unsuitable for the Spark Core. So today I started working on my own library, which you can now find on Github. Before this I’ve never touched C++ so the code is probably both badly architected and in poor style, but it’s a start and it will improve as I’m learning. Co…

[Boley]

Hi there.
Did you mean …withOUT using particle cloud?
If so, the short answer is yes. I’m doing it now. But there are some considerations.
For instance, I had to roll my own cryptographic signature to ensure that no one else could post to my server with bogus data.

[Stevie]

… and beware that there is a bug (fixed now in develop and 0.5) which caused weird effects, if the response was short (see [solved] Electron: TCPClient weirdness).