Arduino IoT Cloud 2021 - Getting Started with Arduino & ESP32 

Hi everyone - It's come to my attention that there has been someone masquerading as myself, responding to some comments here with a link to a Telegram chat to win a prize from me. THIS IS A SCAM, I am not holding a contest, nor do I have a Telegram account. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO THESE MESSAGES!! It's happening on a lot of my videos, I'm taking steps to remove them manually, but as I have 162 videos, it will take some time. If you do run across a suspicious comment, I would appreciate you letting me know at info@dronebotworkshop.com. Thanks! Bill (The real one!)

So sorry for the long gap between videos, have had a bunch of tech issues (hopefully now resolved) plus I'm involved in a new robotics project (plus the resurrection of an older one) that I'll be showing you very soon, and it's been taking up most of my time. Hope you enjoy the video!

As a 74 year old novice I decided to give this project a go, it took me a day to get it working with the Arduio Nano33 IOT. Most of the time was spent solving issues that were unrelated to the excellent tutorial. Thank for the great work Bill.

22:25 Serial Monitor Moved -> [Sketch] tab -> click on the 'magnifying-glass' icon (opens serial monitor in new browser tab). 27:38 dht library - if not found in search, click on the [LIBRARY MANAGER] button (above search)

i just wanted to say you are the best teacher you got me through uni projects and gave me so much knowledge. thankyou for your hard work even though i am becoming an artist and have left engineering as a career choice i still love to watch your videos :D

Thanks for the inspiration @DroneBot Workshop! I will use some of your experiments in my class with the students to demonstrate the capabilities of the Arduino IoT Cloud and the various supported boards and sensors.

Montréal? So am I! :D Thanks for all your videos! I’ve learned a lot with you! Today I was proud to connect a RGB LED and control the intensity of each color with 3 sliders from IOT. I placed the breadboard on my balcony and went far away (but close enough to see it) in my car to control the LED with my phone!

A ton of capability revealed here in an easy to understand straightforward manner. Thanks for putting this together.

I'm contemplating setting up an Arduino MKR controller to control a couple of AC outlets and monitor temperatures at a remote location. This video is a treasure-trove of getting started. Thank you so much! This is amazing!

One of the best channels I've found with such a huge amount of information. Clear and easy to follow.

Bill, This was another great educational video. I'm glad to get exposure to this topic and find an option for over the internet control. Thank you for showing both the Arduino and ESP32 for the same application. It gives those of us who don't have much exposure to the ESP32 but quite a bit to the Arduino a better understanding of how to bridge the gap to the ESP32. Thank you for putting this together and sharing.

Lots of things (lower case things) to know. rewind and play, rewind and play. THANKS BILL!

Roger I agree great work. I am 79 and still learning.

Finally getting into Arduino Cloud. I was resisting for the longest time: I’m happy with the IDE. But you have convinced me. And saved me time figuring all this out. Merci and dressings from Ottawa.

Thanks for the video. Your presentations are clear and well explained, with a lot of good info. I have subscribed and plan on joining the forum.

THANK YOU so much for doing this. I borrowed a book from the library "Connecting the Arduino to the Web" and I found it way too complex. This method is way easier.

A fellow Canadian, cheers from N.S.! Do the exact same video with AWS, Azure, etc. This is in demand and timely! Keep up the great content!

As always, an excellent video! Thank you for sharing it!

This was one of those videos that have a classic light bulb moment, BING! A simple alternative to NodeRed and MQTT, for a home barometer project, now there's an idea that I can use. Thanks. A thoroughly interesting video.

Tiny thing: at 42:44, that LED shows the kathode on the left, I think? The “cup”. But your ground connection is on the right.

Great video. You may want to have a short video on initial connection of the IOT cloud, especially where you get the error can’t find device driver or device driver not installed, and how to correct that. Thanks again

An excellent video!!! I would also like to watch comparison of other IOT platform like Blynk and others, whilch one is easy to use and better. Thanks.

Some very strange responses to this video. Thanks for the time to make this. Another option for controlling remotely. Good to know.

This looks really cool and accessible. And you are doing a great job demonstrating it. I would really like this to be independent from a central server I have no control over.

Good to see you back sir. A beautifully put class. Thanks and stay blessed.

Very good introduction, thank you 😀 I already have a project in mind for this, something I’m currently doing with three ESP32s and a Raspberry Pi running a NodeRed flow. My current set up is quite hard to maintain. When I add functionality I have to remove the ESP from its enclosure, then connect it to my pc then upload the revised program, then put it back in its enclosure. This takes time and could create problems with the connections as I have to disturb the boards they are mounted on. The OTA functionality will save having to remove them from their enclosures and the dashboard feature can release my Raspberry Pi for my next project.

I really love your workshop videos, they have helped me out on many occasions

Thank you! Now I have a much better understanding of the Arduino IoT

I was very confused until now. Thanks very much

Thank you Sir. Just today I started to learn about I cloud. This helped me so much. Profitable time spent with you.

im curious. could this be programed to run a v8 motor with multiport fuel injection.

I just picked up the Arduino Opla. I cant find much information out there on it. I love your videos. I am watching this hoping to solve my issues.

Thanks for sharing because it taught me how good the Arduino IOT platform now and how easy it is to use. Plus, great to see a fellow Ubuntu user!

Great videos. Very well explained and covering interesting use cases. Appreciate the effort sharing your knowledge.

Excellent detailed explanation!! Thanks very much

Yet another outstanding video. Many thanks Bill for al the efforts you put into this awesome RU-vid channel. 👍👍👍

Thankyou for your demonstration.😄

Muuy Buen video...saludos desde SPS, HONDURAS.....veo tus videos.

Hi Bill, Great video as always. I had a little issue with the Nano 33-iot. It wasn't being recognized by the IOT cloud interface. I went into the arduino ide and set the device to Nano-33-iot and the port that was recognized. After doing these steps, the devices was recognized by the IOT cloud interface. I guess I should have known this, but others may have the same problem. It doesnt seem that this step should be necessary, however. Thanks again for a great video and ALL of your great videos!!😃

Outstanding! Really appreciate you creating and sharing your work. It doesn't "just" happen, represents a lot of work. What are you using to draw your circuit diagrams? Cheers

Thanks for all of the effort you put into these videos.

17:45 variable permission is much better understood if its called input/output and not read/write

Morning my Good Sir, Charl from George in South Africa, JUST WANT TO SAY AWESOME THANK YOU FOR THIS CHANNEL, I DONT WORK MOST OF THE DAYS IN WEEK, BUT AS SOON AS I CAN I WILL SEPORT YOUR CHANNEL

This is great Bill, exactly what I was looking for to build my first IoT project.

im new to this and am clueless. but i really want to learn this so badly

Such a nice explanation, this video require million of likes

*How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings account? No one*

Excellent explanation, thank you very much! 🤗

Ur videos are highly apreciated sir.... Thanks....

Very very informative and interesting. Thanks for your effert to creating such amazing tutorials. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 thank you so much 🙏

Its really wonderful presentation. Thank you sir❤️

why on my serial monitor project it says connection to : "(My SSID)" failed, so my dashboard is not connected?

Any recommendations regarding the use of Blynk vs Arduino IoT Cloud?

Thank you for the video! Awesome content.

Thanks for this tutorial!

Hello ,can I use Arduino Uno+ esp8266 to connect to Arduino IoT cloud?

great video as always I'm using my arduino as a mini webserver for itself so i can control a bot from the browser this would be awesome for the ease of the app application

Friend, I have a problem loading the fingerprint enrollment program from the Adafruit_Fingerprint library in my SP32, I get this error "A fatal error occurred: Timed out waiting for packet content" and the program does not load, could you tell me what I can do? I wait your answer thank you.

Awesome job as usual. I would be very much interested about your view / comparison with the Blynk IoT service!

I can read analog input 1-5v in arduino iot cloud serial monitor, but not shown in iot dashboard. What may be the reason

Great video, thank you. The IoT Cloud looks fantastic, wish I could think of a project to make. The max temperature should be 50c here in Australia.

i tested a sparkfun esp32 thing on it. it didnt work. tried the arduino online programmer it didnt work. tried the arduino ide on my computer and programmed and worked fine. this esp32thing is a older board. they still have issues to work out. its not production ready.

thank you, amazing video. need more on ESP32

my ESP32 always show status "offline" not "ready to connect". can you help me?

Finally.Thank you for great video like others

How would you go about implementing a way to connect each board without access to IoT platform?

Can't understand the LED part. Specifically the if--clause. if(redLED){ digitalWrite(myLED,HIGH)... I learned that there should be a condition in "if". Like if(redLED == LOW) { than.... What's the condition here? I tried to vary the code with void setup{ pinMode(myLED, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(myLED, LOW) so the initial condition is - LED Turned off. But every time I flash the board the LED is on, whereas the switch shows OFF. So my values are mixed. Is there an error in my logic? Thanks a lot for your effort and the small details, really like you videos!

I tried it but it didn't recognized my Generic ESP8266... it couldn't connect.... the agent is okey but got an error when trying to upload the code....

Another great instructional video. Thanks ! Arduino IoT Cloud is a great tool !

Hello Bill, thank you for your excellent tutorial. I have a question thought about the data retention on Arduino IoT Cloud. As I saw, the longest retention is 1 year with the most expensive plan. I want to monitor the water level of my well over many years (20 or more) and I don't want to loose any of my data. Is this still possible with Arduino IoT Cloud? If not, can you suggest another solution? thank you very much

Why is there an echo dot in the thumbnail and not in the video

Hey when I upload a library to Arduino web editor it doesn't let me add the library to my sketch. Can u help?

Does the arduino come factory installed with an operating system? Please forgive the stupid question.

Thank you for your very clear explanations, even for an old fool like me. When will I be able to put even the weight, my bees will be happy. Kind regards from San Felice Circeo Italy A.B.

I'm using ESP32 DO IT DEVKIT V1, when I configure it, everytimes is offline, What Shall I do

Thank you, this was really good. Keep up the good work.

Having a MacBook Air 2020 M1. Problems with indtaling ArduiniCreateAgent Safari. Any suggestions? I’m not the only one - according to post on the internet. Haven’t found any solutions- help :-)

I checked your channel yersterday and there was no update from a month, i was really concerned that everything was ok or not.... On other hand i was thinking you are working on a big project so i was exicted for the upcomming video.. Anyway.... glad to have another video....

Fantastic video! I wonder how much network traffic the devices require if they need to constantly communicate with the cloud. I don't like that it opens a gateway into your home network and you store your wifi credentials in the cloud.

Thank you so much for this helpful video sir. God bless you

Can the Arduino IoT cloud be used with using the Scratch programming language? It could be used for teaching purposes, where children would add new sensors and Arduino boards.

Is there a simular opensource server software u can use? I am new to the arduino. But I am working on building multiple vending machines so I can have an.unmanned mini supermarket. And every machine has a arduino for controller, that I want to connect by utp to my webstore that show all the products I sell. So a customer goes to my website buys by a ewallet app or online banking.(big qr code.on the wall that directs u to the webstore) after u pay the product comes out of a hole in the wall.

Arduino update Super interesting 👍 Thanks for the video

I'm having a problem where the esp32 isn't connecting to my network. All the credentials are correct. In the serial monitor it keeps saying that the connection has failed. Great video btw😎👍

Before video: "I'll listen to it in the background" After: "IoT the world!"

Hi, What makes a controller Arduino IOT compatible? I have an Ethernet shield for my Uno. I read temp and humidity in my basement through my home network. Can I use it to make a Thing?

Dear Sir I can't Sign In the Arduino IoT cloud in my mobile phone. I use the same email and password what I use to Sing in in Arduino IoT in my Laptop no problem .Why? Please allow me to solve this problem? Thank & Best Reguard

Mind blown. Thanks so much.

Do I have to upload the code from Sketch tab to my ESP32 board? Sorry, it's not clear for me.

Really excellent content

Hey guys, i need help. I did everything as he did in the part which he connects the DHT 22 and the it is compiling and everything. The problem is that i don't get any reads in the dashboard, it does'nt show even 0, it shows this '' -- ''. Can someone help me? I would like to join the forum too, so if you can send me the email (copy paste it) i would appreciate it . Maybe you got some forums that will help me too. I'm writing my engineering project. Thank you, all the best guys.

thanks, super presentation, many many useful tips, and good wishes..

Thank you so much, so helpful and really nice video

So if I built a device using the iot, and I left my house to go to the store, could I monitor the device without being connected to my home wifi?

Is it correct that 'a thing' is an complete working subject. So I made more things for more applications?

Thank You Sir. Very Helpful

Excellent video, Bill, as always. I didn’t know how bad I needed this until I watched this video. Question, you mentioned Blynk in this video. Did you ever get a chance to to a tutorial on Blynk? Just curious since I couldn’t find it. Did I miss it? Keep up the fabulous work!

I have a question. I want to interface a Nextion Display. I know how to use the cloud with esp32 and ESP32 and Display. What I cant figure is how to combine the codes to make ESP32, Cloud and Display together. Any input? Thanks

How does Arduino IoT Cloud compare with Adafruit IO? What other Cloud IoT services would you recommend looking at? Thanks.

How do you use that power bank with low power device? It has auto shutdown if current drawn is very little causing mcu to restart/reset. Any workaround?