Question

I am trying to send some very simple data from an arduino with an ethernet shield to my meteor app and enter it into a mongodb collection. With what I came up with so far, I can add info into a collection with this iron-router route in the server when I enter the path into the browser:

this.route('enter', {
    path: '/enter/:_id',
    data: function (){
      _id  = this.params._id;
      return Meteor.call('addMessage', _id);
    }
});

I figured if I sent a simple GET request from the arduino with the data put into the path like "http://my-app-name.meteor.com/enter/some-message", that this would work even if there wasn't any GET info in the message but I'm probably wrong about that. Here is my request code for the arduino:

void connectToServer() {
  // attempt to connect, and wait a millisecond:
  Serial.println("connecting to server...");
  if (client.connect(serverName, 80)) { // serverName is "ijsnow.meteor.com"
    Serial.println("making HTTP request...");
    // make HTTP GET request to the server:
    client.println("GET /enter/message-from-arduino HTTP/1.1");
    client.println("HOST: ijsnow.meteor.com");
    client.println();
  }
  // note the time of this connect attempt:
  lastAttemptTime = millis();
}

I get the message in the serial monitor that it is making the request but nothing changes in my mongodb collection on that server.

Is there something I need to do differently in my meteor app? I know it would be better if I sent it as an actual GET or POST request but I can't figure out how to process the data in meteor.
Does anyone know if there is better way that I should be sending the data to my meteor app with?

Sorry if this was confusing or if this is a dumb way to do this but I'd like to use meteor for this app if possible!

Thanks in advance for any answers or feedback!

Answer 1

For connectables, I run a net server inside Meteor that can accept raw TCP packets from just about anything.

For arduino specific stuff, check out johnny-five and this repo for some good stuff: https://github.com/Goyapa/mongoduinometeor

How can I send info from an arduino to server running on meteor

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