Serial Web Services

[iobridge]

Your microcontroller can use Google Calculator!

We have produced a brand-new API for the Serial Smart Board. Since the IO-204 module is connected to our web services, anything hooked to the serial smart board now has access to those web services. For example, you can have a microcontroller send a string into the serial board and cause that string to be emailed.

This feature allows the microcontroller access to all kinds of web resources including, email, text messaging, Twitter updates, Google Calculator, Yahoo Financials, and Google Weather. You can simply make requests at the microcontroller level, and the web service will act and return answers. You can ask Google Calculator to calculate the sin(90) and we will return the answer. Your imagination is the limitation to what you can create with this functionality. Ask for stock quotes and cause LED's or buzzers to sound based on the input is just an idea.

Here is the full documentation:

http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/api/serial-web-services-api

Compatiablity is with any serial device or microcontroller that can send and receive serial data. Give it try, if you have questions or comments, let us know. We can add new web services to the list, so if you have one we are not thinking, we can add it really easily. We also added a GET command and you can interface with other web API's or your scripts pretty easily.

Have fun. We hope to see some really interesting projects using this feature soon. As we get more ideas we will add to the Wiki.

[Photosbykev]

even more toys to drive our imagination nuts

Nice work ioBridge

[iobridge]

We have just added the ability to data log using serial data to this API.

http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/api/serial-web-services-api#data_log

All you have to do is create a data log key on your Interface page. Send data to the serial smart board and we will post the data into a database.

Here is the format of the serial string:

[[[data_log|key|timestamp|data]]]

You can post up to 50 characters of serial data in to your database at a time.

[electroman]

Hi,

I am trying to log some data from a serial string sent to the serial smart board using the API at 

http://www.iobridge.net/wiki/api/serial-web-services-api#data_log

I have looked around my Interface pages and I can't seem to locate a place to create the data log key. 

Can anyone help? 

Also is the database accessible in the same way as the normal data log that I can access under the "modules"  tab?

Cheers

[electroman]

Ignore my last post.  Found the serial key and it works like a charm.