Basic Particle Dashboard Question

[cpetito]

I'm a tad confused about the Particle Dashboard.

I've successfully updated FW and registered my third OAK using 0.9.5.  N.B. the update did take a few times to succeed.

This third device is registered and shows up on the Particle Dashboard, but I cannot name it like the previous two.  The name text box simply is outlined in red after I enter a name and the name does not stick.

My second issue is logs.  Every time, except once,  the logs page always says "Waiting for events.. Send some events using Particle.publish() in your firmware."  One time I did see a real time log for my third OAK, showing flashing status and on-line status.  But I have not been able to do see this log again.

I must be overlooking something obvious.

Any information or pointer to documentation will be appreciated.

Thanks!

[PeterF]

I can't help you with the name problem, other than to suggest maybe it doesn't like the name? Try something simply like Oak1 (unless you've aleady called another one that!!) and see if that takes, and then try changing the name.

As far as the logs, they aren't saved. In other words, you will only see events that are happen after opening the log view. To demonstrate that, you should be able to open the log view, and unplug and re-plug (or disconnect power and reconnect if you have it setup up differently) one of your oaks, and it should show a disconnect and connect message within 5-10 seconds. If you have your oak sending publish messages, you'll also see them listed whenever they fire. Same as messages about new code being loaded.

Pete

[cpetito]

Pete,

Thanks for the information.

I'm not sure what the issue was with naming my third Oak.  Being not very creative, it was simply Oak-03.  However, I was able to rename it with the Particle Android app. 

I appreciate the log overview.  I made an assumption that the logs would show history.  With your explanation, it makes sense now.

Thanks!
Carl

[PeterF]

No worries Carl... I assumed the same thing about the logs, and was a bit disappointed when I realised they didn't retain any logs when you didn't have the log view open. Then again, I suppose Particle isn't a datalogging service like Thingspeak or Adafruit IO.

Hm... didn't realise there was a app for Particle... will have to go investigate it now

[emardee]

I'm pretty sure Storage is one of the features being added to Particle Cloud as a result of the partnership with Erik for Oak compatibility (to fulfill all the kickstarter promises). I forget if Particle Team are adding that feature, or if Erik was....

Looking forward to this platform and eco-system reaching maturity... should get pretty exciting once the gremlins are found and squashed, and more time is free for Erik to unleash his creativity again on adding the promised features!

I didn't know there was an app either!

[PeterF]

Neither the Apple or Android versions were as exciting as I would have hoped they would be. They appear to exist mainly to a) help with device provisioning, and b) working with some custom firmware ("tinker") that lets you control using the app... haven't been brave enough yet to try putting it on an oak to see if it breaks things..

It does let you rename your device, but that looks like the only really useful thing in it ATM - was hoping it would let me access the Particle log view on my tablet, as I now have a ds18b20 temp sensor running on Oak2, and it is publishing the temperature every 10 seconds. Now to do something with it! Hm... maybe another Oak hooked up with the TFT screen?