By: Alex Grejuc

Today I finally succeeded in getting “data” (arbitrary numbers that I either hardcoded or looped through) from the Arduino through the ESP and to Adafruit IO.

I troubleshooted my bad requests by sending in AT commands manually through the Arduino serial monitor. After digging around on the internet, I found that the Arduino serial monitor does not recognize the \r and \n (carriage return and newline) escape sequences, so I sent each line of the GET request in line-by-line, and it worked.

This was manifesting itself in my code too because my character counts were off (the ESP AT command requires the length of the argument you are going to send it and will not work properly if it is off). After troubleshooting, I found the “correct” character count for my requests and I was able to receive a proper response from an Adafruit test page.

After this, I looked into sending a GET request to the IO platform with data. I was able to get this working as well and published some test data to an Adafruit “feed.”

I plan on cleaning up the code by writing some functions to make it more readable and easier to use as well as updating my comments now that I have a better understanding of the process. Once I do this, I will publish the code along with some of the resources that helped me along the way.

Here is a screenshot of some of the data on the Adafruit IO website.