Author: myDevices Cayenne Team

Preparing your Raspberry Pi

Power on your Raspberry Pi. Connect the power adapter to your Raspberry Pi. Connect the Pi to the Internet. Connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet using an Ethernet cable. Or, if you have a Wi-Fi dongle setup already this works too. Make sure the Raspbian operating system is installed. Cayenne works with Wheezy and … Continued

Using the App 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. Using the mobile app, tap the + icon to go to the Add Device screen. 2. On the Add Device screen you will see categories … Continued

Using the Dashboard to control your Actuator

Now that our light switch has been configured and added to the Dashboard, we can use the switch to control our light. Because we created our light switch as a Button, we can use it to directly toggle the state of our light. 1. Click on the tile for the switch to turn the light … 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

Using the App 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 App 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. Using the mobile app, tap the + icon to go to the Add Device screen. 2. From the Add Device screen, tap on the Temperature category … 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

How Cayenne Works

Cayenne is the first of its kind drag and drop IoT project builder that empowers developers to quickly create and host their connected device projects. Cayenne was designed for the Internet of Things. It can control hardware remotely, it can display sensor data, it can store data, analyze and do many other cool things. There … Continued