Post by aeonpsych on Aug 28, 2022 22:43:39 GMT
Hello,
Had a few threads on the other forum, but I guess the forum has been migrated?
Anyways,
Had some connectivity issues, had some latency issues, etc. But all have seemed to been resolved (albeit possibly the most recent issue from the previous board being weak connectivity to the GPS satellites, which could be resolved with updated antenna).
Last issue I had posted was that I was having issues posting my gps data to feeds. Currently using adafruit.io, but they have a lot of limitations on the free plan, and was unable (at least until today) figure out how to manipulate that feed data out to my own discord server to receive update notifications for anything going on with my device. It appears the free adafruit io plan throttles these external webhook posts (which is what discord uses to receive data) to once every 15 minutes. I'm using my GPS as a tracker, so that could be very inconvenient if it really is so. Sure, I could pay for the extra data limits, BUT I didn't think I needed to, being that I was already sending data from my arduino to IFTTT, and was very happy with it even on the free plan. I was even able to send basically serial log data to tell me what was happening on the device. Had it all setup, BUT turns out, I think IFTTT only accepts connections over HTTPS, which the arduino fona library doesn't seem to support natively (which is the latest issue I was trying to resolve). For some reason, on fresh boot of the device (like power off, reset, etc), I AM able to post to IFTTT, but then minutes later, the connection bricks. It returns some unknown HTTP status error (I don't remember the code off the top of my head, but searching for the code brought up no information on it, hardly at all). Anyways, I believe it to be because of the HTTP/HTTPS.
TL/DR: Is there a way I can send arduino data to discord without paying for an extra data plan, using the mega and sim7000A combo? Hologram doesn't seem to have access to the data, so I can't do anything there. adafruit.io works, but seems to be heavily throttled, IFTTT (the best so far) works, but seems to brick most likely because of HTTPS/HTTP. I'm just trying to have it so that I can basically get specific serial log messages, and tracking updates in a specific discord channel. If I could receive updates on my phone some other way, that would be ideal method as well.
Basically, I guess I am just trying to find a service I can post any data from arduino to that updates and gives me a notification in real time. preferably to a discord server/channel or my phone. have not seem to found any services like that that aren't going to be charging me more than I think is worth it... For the price, I'm almost better off buying a GPS tracker with monthly subscription, since the whole point of me doing this in arduino was to do it for cheaper, if not, free (in terms of monthly costs) lol.
Thanks!
Had a few threads on the other forum, but I guess the forum has been migrated?
Anyways,
Had some connectivity issues, had some latency issues, etc. But all have seemed to been resolved (albeit possibly the most recent issue from the previous board being weak connectivity to the GPS satellites, which could be resolved with updated antenna).
Last issue I had posted was that I was having issues posting my gps data to feeds. Currently using adafruit.io, but they have a lot of limitations on the free plan, and was unable (at least until today) figure out how to manipulate that feed data out to my own discord server to receive update notifications for anything going on with my device. It appears the free adafruit io plan throttles these external webhook posts (which is what discord uses to receive data) to once every 15 minutes. I'm using my GPS as a tracker, so that could be very inconvenient if it really is so. Sure, I could pay for the extra data limits, BUT I didn't think I needed to, being that I was already sending data from my arduino to IFTTT, and was very happy with it even on the free plan. I was even able to send basically serial log data to tell me what was happening on the device. Had it all setup, BUT turns out, I think IFTTT only accepts connections over HTTPS, which the arduino fona library doesn't seem to support natively (which is the latest issue I was trying to resolve). For some reason, on fresh boot of the device (like power off, reset, etc), I AM able to post to IFTTT, but then minutes later, the connection bricks. It returns some unknown HTTP status error (I don't remember the code off the top of my head, but searching for the code brought up no information on it, hardly at all). Anyways, I believe it to be because of the HTTP/HTTPS.
TL/DR: Is there a way I can send arduino data to discord without paying for an extra data plan, using the mega and sim7000A combo? Hologram doesn't seem to have access to the data, so I can't do anything there. adafruit.io works, but seems to be heavily throttled, IFTTT (the best so far) works, but seems to brick most likely because of HTTPS/HTTP. I'm just trying to have it so that I can basically get specific serial log messages, and tracking updates in a specific discord channel. If I could receive updates on my phone some other way, that would be ideal method as well.
Basically, I guess I am just trying to find a service I can post any data from arduino to that updates and gives me a notification in real time. preferably to a discord server/channel or my phone. have not seem to found any services like that that aren't going to be charging me more than I think is worth it... For the price, I'm almost better off buying a GPS tracker with monthly subscription, since the whole point of me doing this in arduino was to do it for cheaper, if not, free (in terms of monthly costs) lol.
Thanks!
