[SOLVED] Python ubidots code review

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Hi,

I have scraped together some of the code which runs on RPi.

I noticed ubidots python library dos not support tags or name so only IDs can be send.

Does anyone knows a better approach?

I struggled some time before adding timeout logic. My code was simply stuck in ubidots library from time to time.

If anyone knows a better solution to replace timeout logic?

Best regards

Github sample code

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Fortunately, both Python and Ubidots have made it soo easy to use HTTP requests, that is simpler to just hit Ubidots’ API directly than using a custom library (just 2 lines of code!):

1- Install requests (http://docs.python-requests.org/)

sudo pip install requests

2- Use it in the code:

import time
import requests
import math

c = 0

while(1):
    c = c + 1
    payload = {'variable1': round(20*math.cos(c),2), 'variable2': round(20*math.sin(c),2)}
    r = requests.post('http://things.ubidots.com/api/v1.6/devices/motor/?token=H8y1xxxxxxxx0Q1msMSLxxxxxx', data=payload)
    time.sleep(0.5)

These are the results of this code:

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Please note that “motor” is the API label of the device:

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Many thanks.

It is always nice to see what others are using.

Best regards

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