Send awesome messages to your devices with the Text Field Widget
Have you always wanted to send textual data to your devices? With the Text Field Widget, you can send anything you want to your devices!
HOLD YOUR HORSES! To get started with your first awesome project with this widget, start off by reading the Introduction. You’ll understand what Meeo is all about. If you already read it, then let us proceed 🤘.
If you have chosen to add this awesome widget from the Widget Menu, you can give a specific name to your widget by typing on the “Name” field. You do not need to type anything on the “Channel” field for now because anything you type on the “Name” field is reflected on the “Channel” field (everything is in small caps and each word is separated with a dash sign “-”). If you really want to have a specific channel for your widget, then you can type the channel name you want. In case you are wondering what is the difference between the “Name” and “Channel” field, the first field lets you give a cool name to your widget. The second field is used as a channel for your devices to subscribe to or to publish data on. If you are happy with the name of your widget, you can now click/press the “Save” button.
Text Field Widget Information
In order for your device to connect to your widget, you need to know the widget’s information. To access this, each widget has an “Option” icon on the top right corner. Click/press the icon and you will see the Widget Information Box as shown on the image below:
The Widget Information Box holds the most important information of a widget; the topic. If you would notice, the topic is separated by a “/”. The phrase on the left is called the namespace while the phrase on the right is called the channel (remember the “Channel” field?). You should take note of these because it is needed by the Meeo Arduino Library.
Text Field Widget Data
“Hello World” is often the phrase or message that beginners use as a way to introduce themselves to a new programming language. With the Text Field Widget, you can literally send the message “Hello World” to your device! You can send any textual message. You can send letters, numbers, words or sentences. You can send the one of the longest words (supercalifragilisticexpialidocious)! Just take note that you can only send 65536 characters!
Send it in real-time!
With the Text Field Widget, sending messages has never been this easy! Send anything in real-time! You have the power to send any message you want. Be sure that no one will get hurt 😂 With great power, comes great responsibility 😎🤘
