Crowtail- Meeo IOT Kit

Details

The IOT kit will supply you with Crowtail modules, which include ESP8266 NodeMCU, OLED, RGB LED, Moisture sensor, Temperature & Humidity sensor, Flame sensor, Buzzer, and Relay. This kit comes from our Philippine customer, who has a platform of Internet of Things with Meeo. This kit doesn’t require any soldering and is recommended to anyone with a drive to learn the Internet of Things through Arduino-compatible board, everything is plug and play!

Features

MQTT, Immerse yourself with the Internet of Things through MQTT, an easy-to-use protocol for your connected devices.
Love for Open Source, Meeo comes with an open-source library for off-the-shelf open hardware DIY boards such as ESP8266, NodeMCU, and more!
Simplified Dashboard, Visualize your data on your dashboard through a set of simple widgets in real time!

Instructions

Get the Arduino IDE from the Arduino website.
Install the necessary drivers for your Crowtail ESP8266 board. Get it here.
Set up your Arduino IDE to support ESP8266-based Arduino boards. To do this, open the Arduino Preferences window.
On Mac, make sure that the Arduino IDE is active and then click Arduino->Preferences….
On Windows, click File->Preferences
On the Preferences Window, put the program into Additional Board Manager URLs filed.
Open the Boards Manager by navigating to Tools-> Board-> Boards Manager. On the Boards Manager, search for esp8266. The result should return esp8266 by ESP8266 Community. Press the install button to install the necessary board configurations for the ESP8266-based Arduino boards.
Install the amazing Arduino PubSubClient by Nick O’Leary. Just go to Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries… and look for PubSubClient.
Then finally, install the Meeo Arduino Library. Just go to Sketch -> Include Library -> Manage Libraries… and look for Meeo.
That’s it! Under File > Examples > Meeo > MeeoCrowtailBasic, you can play around with the project codes that you can do with your kit.
To know more about Meeo, you can check our introduction here. All other articles can be found on the Medium page .