NodeMCU act as WiFi client to update dweet.io

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dweet.io is simple publishing and subscribing for machines, sensors, devices, robots, and gadgets (we just call them things). We call published messages ‘dweets’. It’s helpful to think of dweet.io as a Twitter for things, in fact.

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I have a old example to show how to "Arduino Uno + Ethernet Shield send data to dweet.io and freeboard.io". It's a NodeMCU (with ESP8266 core for Arduino) version to update dweet.io.

You can visit following link on web browser to update dweet.io manually to test your url:
www.dweet.io/dweet/for/test_NodeMCU?A0=123

And check your thing at:
http://dweet.io/follow/test_NodeMCU

where testNodeMCU is the id of your thing in dweet.io, 123 is the value to update.

This code run on NodeMCU (suppose other standalone ESP8266 also), to connect to WiFi as client, read analog input from A0, and update dweet.io. (It's modified from Examples > ESP8266WiFi > WiFiClient,)


Connect analog input to A0, connection refer to last post "NodeMCU to read analog input, A0".

NodeMCU_WiFiClient_dweetio.ino

/*
 * reference: Examples > ESP8266WiFi > WiFiClient 
 */

#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>
const int AnalogIn  = A0;

const char* ssid     = "myssid";
const char* password = "password";

const char* host = "www.dweet.io";
const char* thing  = "test_NodeMCU";
const char* thing_content = "A0";

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200);
  delay(10);

  // We start by connecting to a WiFi network

  Serial.println();
  Serial.println();
  Serial.print("Connecting to ");
  Serial.println(ssid);
  
  WiFi.begin(ssid, password);
  
  while (WiFi.status() != WL_CONNECTED) {
    delay(500);
    Serial.print(".");
  }

  Serial.println("");
  Serial.println("WiFi connected");  
  Serial.println("IP address: ");
  Serial.println(WiFi.localIP());
}

int value = 0;

void loop() {
  delay(1000);
  value = analogRead(AnalogIn);

  Serial.print("connecting to ");
  Serial.println(host);
  
  // Use WiFiClient class to create TCP connections
  WiFiClient client;
  const int httpPort = 80;
  if (!client.connect(host, httpPort)) {
    Serial.println("connection failed");
    return;
  }
  
  // We now create a URI for the request
  String url = "/dweet/for/";
  url += thing;
  url += "?";
  url += thing_content;
  url += "=";
  url += value;
  
  Serial.print("Requesting URL: ");
  Serial.println(url);
  
  // This will send the request to the server
  client.print(String("GET ") + url + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
               "Host: " + host + "\r\n" + 
               "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
  int timeout = millis() + 5000;
  while (client.available() == 0) {
    if (timeout - millis() < 0) {
      Serial.println(">>> Client Timeout !");
      client.stop();
      return;
    }
  }
  
  // Read all the lines of the reply from server and print them to Serial
  while(client.available()){
    String line = client.readStringUntil('\r');
    Serial.print(line);
  }
  
  Serial.println();
  Serial.println("closing connection");
}