Author: myDevices Cayenne Team

Cayenne project builder adds kick to IoT development, starting with Raspberry Pi

In January myDevices launched Cayenne, a tool for quickly designing IoT projects using a friendly drag-and-drop interface for everything from hardware connections to app configuration. It also includes a rules engine to set up automated behaviors, and presents visualization tools and hardware controls as widgets in an automatically generated web and mobile dashboard.

Match, Set, Pi!

Attention all makers, engineers, and designers big and small. This week’s Fish Fry is dedicated to everyone’s favorite maker single board computer extraordinaire…the Raspberry Pi 3! …Keeping with our theme, my next guest is myDevices CEO Kevin Bromber. Did you know that myDevices just announced a Raspberry Pi IoT contest? Kevin will tell you how you … Continued

Setting up your first Trigger

Using the Triggers & Alerts feature, you can easily create triggered actions on and between your Pis, sensors and actuators based upon the state your devices. Turn on the lights when someone comes home, or open the blinds when the sun comes up. Cayenne makes creating such events easy by guiding you through this process. … Continued

Using the Online Dashboard to add your Actuator

Once your LED is wired up and connect to your Raspberry Pi, you can add it to the Cayenne dashboard. Let’s add a Light Switch to control our light. 1. From the online dashboard, locate the Add new menu and select the Device entry. 2. On the Add Device screen you will see categories containing … Continued

Connecting the Actuator

For the purposes of this guide, we will use an LED light so that we can control it using the Raspberry Pi as a Light Switch to directly control our light. Step 1: Connect the LED positive wire (the longer of the two wires) from resistor to a GPIO pin. In this example, GPIO 17. … Continued

Configuring your first Actuator

A couple notes before you get started: Make sure Raspberry Pi is powered off when connecting wires. When using a GPIO ribbon cable, make sure the power wire (it’s a different color than the others) is connected to the corner of your Raspberry Pi and the top of your Pi cobbler. The provided diagram is … Continued

Using the Dashboard to read your Sensor

Once your temperature widget has been added to the dashboard, Cayenne will begin monitoring your sensor. You can check the current status of your sensor at any time by visiting the dashboard. The Value Display widget we chose when setting up our dashboard allows us to see the latest temperature value directly on the dashboard. … Continued

Using the Online Dashboard to add your Sensor

Once your temperature sensor is wired up and connected to your Raspberry Pi, you can add it as a widget in Cayenne. Let’s add the BMP180 sensor now. 1. From the online dashboard, locate the Add new menu and select the Device entry. 2. From the Add Device screen, click on the Temperature category in … Continued

Connecting a Temperature Sensor

For the purposes of this guide, we will use a BMP180 which is a Barometric Pressure/Temperature sensor. Step 1: Connect the 3 volt power from your Pi Cobbler to the power line on your breadboard. Step 2: Connect BMP180 VIN pin to the power line on your breadboard. Step 3: Connect the ground pin from … Continued

Configuring your first Sensor

A couple notes before you get started: Make sure Raspberry Pi is powered off when connecting wires. When using a GPIO ribbon cable, make sure the power wire (it’s a different color than the others) is connected to the corner of your Raspberry Pi and the top of your Pi cobbler. The provided diagram is … Continued