Trying out the Arduino IoT Cloud - Guide

14 Mar 2020

So, I wanted to try out the Arduino IoT Cloud. I present to you this little project of a data logger and will also show you the steps to follow along to get started with Arduino IoT Cloud.

First of all Arduino is having free upgrade for 3 months to their maker plan/ With that plan you can create lot many things and connect lot many boards at same time. If you want upgrade now,

In this simple getting started post, we will be controlling the onboard led on Arduino MKR 1010 Board from the Arduino IoT Cloud.

So lets get started:

Setting up an account
Adding a board
Creating a small LED Control Property
Working Explained
Demonstration

Setting up an account

Create an account

Open create.arduino.cc

Click on Sign In

If you have an account then login with your credintials or signup

Enter your details (for Signup)

Verify your email address

Now after logging in, Click on Arduino IoT Cloud

You can also choose several plans

I would suggest to go with free for experimentation

After you open IoT Cloud you will see this.

Adding a board

Click on add new thing

You can select any of the available boards that you have. I have MKR 1010 so I choose that.

Then connect your board to your computer via USB Cable

Follow the steps shown

I would highly recommend using the Cloud Editor for which you need a lightweight Arduino Create Plugin. With that you will not need to install libraries, boards, etc.

See the video for the configuration process, assuming the Create Plugin is installed.

Creating a small LED Control Property

Now make a new property as this one for simple control of an LED

Now click on Edit Sketch

You will see the online code editor open

Click on the secrets tab and add your WiFi SSID And password

Then go to main sketch and add these lines here:

void onLEDControlChange() {
  // Do something
  
 digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN,lEDControl);
}

You can see my sketch here:

https://create.arduino.cc/editor/e14_vimarsh/99754137-0692-4327-9df1-d42014531f23/preview