Hi all ! Hope everyone is safe and well.
Today I'm presenting some design changes that I needed to do.
Why ?
Well, I've discovered recently that, in order for the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN to connect to the Arduino IoT Cloud, it needs to do it through a The Things Network Gateway. Unfortunately, I'm not near one.
This means, I can't get any data to there.
I was also having an hard time to send data through Serial from the receiving MKR 1300 to the Arduino UNO connected to the grove base, so I could display the values coming from the collecting end.
What changes
Here's the new design (only the changes) of my project:
By using a Arduino MKR Connector Carrier, I can connect the grove sensors directly (well, almost - by way of the carrier) to the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN without having to rely on the grove base and another Arduino - another possible point of failure .
This way, upon receiving the data, I can display it in an instant.
In this update, I've removed the Grove LED Socket KIT because the LCD is RGB and I will change the background color accordingly .
ThingSpeak
Because the Arduino MKR 1300 WAN only connects to LoRa, to be able to connect to the Arduino IoT Cloud, it had to be using a gateway. Since I'm not near one, I can't send any data to the Arduino IoT cloud.
Nonetheless, since it can interface with grove sensors, by using the UART WiFi V2 sensor, I can send data to ThingSpeak, instead of Arduino IoT Cloud.
Because now, WiFi is a reality, I can send Twitter updates. It's already an account created, let's start sending those updates.
Keep tuned for more updates and project start !
Stay safe.
