phant

the data logging engine behind data.sparkfun.com

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What it is

the data logging engine behind data.sparkfun.com

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Observed mentions: 2014-07-10 16:26:08 UTC to 2014-08-14 17:52:16 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Jul 7	2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC	2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC	4	4
Jul 14	2014-07-14 00:00:00 UTC	2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 21	2014-07-21 00:00:00 UTC	2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jul 28	2014-07-28 00:00:00 UTC	2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 4	2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC	2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Aug 11	2014-08-11 00:00:00 UTC	2014-08-18 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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jschulenklopper·Aug 14, 2014

Nice! At first, it looked a lot like https://data.sparkfun.com/ which hosts a similar service. (Sparkfun made all the code available with an OSS license at https://github.com/sparkfun/phant.) But it seems that Dweet.io adds subscriptions and alerts to the mix - actively pushing data out to subscribers or when certain conditions are met. That's a nice addition.

In Show HN: Dweet.io – Twitter for machines, now with alerts

uniontownlabs·Jul 11, 2014

We currently push data via websockets when you are viewing a stream, and we will probably offer live TCP output soon. Feel free to file a bug here if you would like to see webhooks added: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/issues

In Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data

uniontownlabs·Jul 11, 2014

We are having the SSL/security discussion in a lot of places, but it would be great to focus the effort here if possible: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/issues/49 Security on 8-bit microcontrollers is one of the hardest problems we've encountered when building this service, and I think it's going to take a lot of community support to help us figure out a good solution that works on most devices. Thanks for all of the input so far!

In Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data

uniontownlabs·Jul 10, 2014

Thanks for the feedback. That's a planned feature: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/issues/13 Right now the web UI is fairly simple, but we will start adding features soon.

In Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data

brennen·Jul 10, 2014

There's some simple example code in the core phant repo: https://github.com/sparkfun/phant/tree/master/examples And a tiny PHP wrapper here: https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkLib/blob/master/lib/SparkLi...

In Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data