Using Ubidots with the Omega

The Omega is compatible with the Ubidots data service! Use the Omega to push datapoints to Ubidots and then create awesome dashboards and data visualizations!

Using the ubidots-client

The Omega communicates with the Ubidots service using a command line client

Installing the Ubidots Client

To allow the Omega to communicate with Ubidots, a package must be installed via opkg from the console of the Omega. The command to enter is:

opkg install ubidots-client

Pushing a Datapoint

Now whenever you want to write to a variable in ubidots, send a command through the command line with your token, data source label, the variable, and the value you wish to assign to it.

The flags -t (token) and -d (data source label) precede the respective values, and ‘set’ will precede the json string containing the variable and new value to assign. Multiple variables, with multiple values, may be assigned at the same time.

For example:

ubidots -t <my-token> -d <my-data-source-label> set '{"variableOne":12, "variableTwo":10}'

Getting the Most Recent Datapoint for a Variable

To get the most recent value of a variable from ubidots, change ‘set’ to ‘get’ and the following json file to the variable name of interest. Only one variable can be fetched at once.

For example:

ubidots -t <my-token> -d <my-data-source-label> get variableOne

What’s Next

Try using Ubidots in a project where you track something using the Omega. Let us know how it goes on the Onion Community.

Check out Ubidot’s site for more info.