User Guides

Plugins: Integrate Golioth Output Streams with Ubidots

Send data from Golioth LightDB Stream to Ubidots.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: Scaling Function

Learn how to apply the scaling function to your raw data.

Written by Camila Hernández
Updated over a week ago

Create cloud-based SCADA visualizations in Ubidots

Replicate SCADA visualizations within Ubidots dashboards

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create a Text Widget

Learn how to create texts widgets to display customized messages on your Ubidots dashboards.

Written by Camila Hernández
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Assigning Dashboards to multiple Organizations

Learn how to assign a Dashboard to multiple Organizations, and its benefits

Written by Sebastián Ruiz
Updated over a week ago

Create a Heatmap Table Widget

Learn how to create a Heatmap Widget in Ubidots to depict the intensity of your data.

Written by Camila Hernández
Updated over a week ago

Apps: Cookie Compliance integration with Google Tag Manager

Learn how to connect a Cookie Consent manager to your Ubidots App using Google Tag Manager

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create a Ring Gauge Widget

Learn how to create Ring Gauge widgets in your Dashboards

Written by Sebastián Ruiz
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Eversensors with Ubidots

Send Eversensors data to Ubidots.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create a Clock Widget

Learn how to create a clock widget in Ubidots to display the time and date in your dashboards.

Written by Camila Hernández
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Swarm Hive with Ubidots

Receive and decode data from devices connected to Swarm Hive network

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Map Zones

Learn all about the Map widget’s zones: a way to visually enrich the positional data of your devices.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Integrate your ChirpStack Data with Ubidots

Receive and decode data from LoRaWAN devices connected to ChirpStack server.

Written by Camila Hernández
Updated over a week ago

Events: Manage downlink messages with LORIOT and Ubidots

Integrate your LORIOT’s data with Ubidots using UbiFunctions as a Cloud-to-Cloud integration.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Integrate your LORIOT data with Ubidots using UbiFunctions

Learn how to make downlink messages to LORIOT back-end with Ubidots

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create a Values Table Widget in Ubidots

Learn how to create Values Table Widget with Ubidots Dashboards

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect SenseCAP+Helium with Ubidots

Integrate SenseCAP LoRaWAN Sensors with Ubidots using Helium Console.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Security: Enable two-factor authentication (2FA)

Increase your account security beyond a username and a password

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: MQTT + UbiFunctions

An MQTT+UbiFunction gateway acting as a middleware between MQTT devices and Ubidots

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Monnit’s ALTA devices with Ubidots

Receive data from your Monnit’s ALTA devices by means of the Monnit’s Webhook API.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Sigfox with Ubidots

Integrate your Sigfox devices to Ubidots

Written by David Santiago Pachon Robayo
Updated over a week ago

Pause or Delete your Ubidots Account

Learn how to Pause or Delete your account in just a few clicks

Written by Sebastián Ruiz
Updated over a week ago

Events: Manage downlink messages to TTS V3 using webhooks

Learn how to make downlink messages to The Things Stack back-end from Ubidots

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Backup your Ubidots data with AWS S3

Back up your Ubidots account data into AWS S3

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

UbiFunctions: Specs and limits

Learn more about Ubidots Cloud Functions' underlying infrastructure, specs and limits

Written by Gustavo Andrés Angulo
Updated over a week ago

UbiFunctions: Using Raw functions

Learn how to set advanced UbiFunctions

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Dashboards: create a bar chart widget

Learn how to create bar charts in your Ubidots dashboard

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

How to Connect the Milesight Gateway to Ubidots via MQTT

Learn to set up your Milesight gateway to be able to send data to Ubidots over MQTT.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect AWS IoT Core to Ubidots using HTTPS

Receive and decode data from devices connected to AWS IoT Core

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect The Things Stack to Ubidots

Receive and decode data from LoRaWAN devices connected to The Things Stack network server

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Ubidots testing environment

Learn how to enable a test environment in your Ubidots account

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Events: Set variable action

Learn how to setup a set variable action using Ubidots Events Engine

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Helium with Ubidots

Integrate the data from your Helium devices into Ubidots

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Monitor your TTS LoRaWAN gateways with Ubidots

Ensure uptime of your The Things Stack deployment by monitoring your LoRaWAN gateways in just a few clicks

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Events: UbiFunctions Action

Set up and trigger UbiFunctions using Ubidots' Events Engine

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Particle functions action

Learn to trigger Particle functions from Ubidots’ data-driven Events engine

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Activate an Organization to the App

Learn to assign and activate Organizations to your Ubidots’ powered Application

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: Settings

Learn how to set up your end-user Application with your company information.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Scheduled Events

Schedule events to perform weekly repetitive actions.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: How to white-label emails coming from your Account

Learn to custom brand email notifications coming from your Account with your email address and sender name of choice.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Telegram Notifications

Set up and trigger Telegram notifications using Ubidots Events Engine

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Zapier with Ubidots

Connect thousands of online tools together, in just a few clicks.

Written by Cristina
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect Exchange Rates APIs with Ubidots

Add currency exchange data to your IoT application in just a few clicks

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect USGS WaterWatch with Ubidots

Add streamflow data from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to your IoT application in just a few clicks

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect OpenWeather with Ubidots

Add weather data to your IoT application in just a few clicks

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Devices: Custom columns and filters

Add custom columns and filter parameters in the Device view, enhancing the experience while navigating through Devices

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Managing Organizations as an End User

Give your End Users enough permissions to Create, Edit, and Manage Organizations on their own

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Managing Users as an End User

Give your End Users enough permissions to Create, Edit, and Manage End Users on their own

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Security: Managing Token Permissions Using Organizational API Roles

Create, Update, Delete and Manage API Roles to have Tokens ruled by a set of custom permissions

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create a Manual Input widget

Send values or context data to an Ubidots variable directly from your dashboard

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Connect Milesight IoT Sensors to Ubidots via TTI

Learn how to connect Milesight sensors over LoRaWAN to Ubidots in just a few minutes

Written by Cristina
Updated over a week ago

User management: Admin users

Learn how to create admin-users and access as one into an existing workspace.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create Rose Chart Widgets

Learn how to create Rose Chart widgets in Ubidots to display polar-parameterized histogram data.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Magic Links

Learn to easily invite your end-users to join your application and grant them with temporary or non-expiring access using Magic Links

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create an Image widget

Embed images in your Ubidots dashboard

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: Custom styles for your dashboards and widgets

Learn how to customize your dashboards and widgets beyond the available options at the App's branding level.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: Advanced Synthetic Variables

Learn how to take full advantage of synthetic variables using complex and special functions.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Connect Particle Mesh devices to Ubidots

Integrate Particle's Mesh devices to Ubidots using their Mesh network and cloud protocols such HTTP, TCP/UDP or Particle Webhooks

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Manage downlink messages with TTN and Ubidots

Learn how to make downlink messages to The Things Network back-end with Ubidots

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: How to white-label emails coming from your application

Learn to custom brand email notifications coming from your application with your email address and sender name of choice.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Duplicate/Replicate dashboards in Ubidots

Duplicate static dashboards or replicate from a dynamic dashboard to scale up your application to thousands of devices.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Line Chart and Double Axis widgets

Learn how to create and setup a Line Chart and a Double Axis widgets in Ubidots.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

HTML Canvas: Interacting with account data

Learn how to use the HTML Canvas widget to retrieve your account's data.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plans & Billing: Paying with PayPal

Easily make monthly invoice and advanced payments with PayPal.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plans & Billing: How to Change your Billing Address

How to edit and update the "Invoice to" billing address in an Ubidots Invoice.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Devices Types: Bulk device creation using a CSV file

Create Devices in bulk simply with a CSV file containing Device Names, API Labels, and Properties.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create Dashboards and Widgets

How to create dashboards and widgets to visualize and understand sensor data from an IoT Solution.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Voice Call Notifications

Setup and trigger live Voice Call Notifications to those who need to know with Ubidots Events Engine.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Device Groups

Use Device Groups to execute operations across 100s of devices in Ubidots Apps.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Creating Global Events

Monitor thousands of devices with a single, global event.

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: Ubidots Data Explorer (Deprecated)

The functionalities of this module have been merged into our all-new Reporting engine.

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

Events: Back to Normal Events and Notifications

Create and program "Back to Normal" events and notifications.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Creating Devices in Ubidots

Learn to provision, create, and edit Devices in Ubidots IoT Application Development Platform.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plugins: Connect AWS IoT with Ubidots (Deprecated)

This plugin has been deprecated

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Ubidots App(s)

Ubidots powered App(s), white-label branding, user-management, and how they all work together to deliver IoT Solutions.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Roles

Create, Edit, and Manage User Permission Roles of an Ubidots Account.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Users

Create, Edit, and Manage Users of an Ubidots Account.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Slack WebHook Setup

Send Ubidots events and notifications directly to your co-workers with Slack Events WebHooks.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Change and Sort the Device Interface

How to change and sort devices in the Device Interface.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Device Types

Use Ubidots Device Types to configure device properties, appearance, and variables to automate the onboarding of thousands of devices.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: UbiFunctions User Guide

Use UbiFunctions serverless computation environment to extract, transform, schedule, and analyze data.

Written by Agustin Pelaez
Updated over a week ago

User Management: Apps

Create and manage users and the devices of your Ubidots powered IoT App with designated permission groups and Organizations.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Adjust the Time Zone of your App

How to adjust the Time Zone of your Ubidots App.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Plans & Billing: How to Add UbiFunctions to my Account

UbiFunctions module lets you process and transform data from 3rd party platforms, as well as creating your own API endpoint.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

How to Export a Device's Data

Learn how to export a Device's data in a CSV file

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Decimal point settings

How to adjust the number of decimal points shown in Ubidots dashboards.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Automatically provision Devices and Variables with Ubidots API Labels

Skip the headache of device and variable setup in your Ubidots account by using Device and Variable API Labels in your firmware.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

GDPR: How to Export my data

All users have a "Right to data portability" - learn to export your data in a machine-readable fashion

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Delete an Account

Request to delete your account or an end-user's account from Ubidots.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Control and Automation with Ubidots

Implement basic automation logic with Ubidots Conditional Events Engine to control machines, processes, and environments.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Analytics: Synthetic Variables Basics

This article explains how and when to use Synthetic Variables in Ubidots' Analytics Engine to compute complex equations.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create Map Widgets in Ubidots

Locate, track, and trace your assets as they move around with Ubidots maps.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

How to redeem a coupon code

How to redeem a promotional event or sponsorship coupon code

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Dashboards: Add Units of Measure

Assign a specific Unit of Measure to your Variables and Widgets – meter, feet, Celcius, Fahrenheit, volume, amps, watts.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Widget Settings: Assign Special Text or Last Reading

Learn how to assign "last reading" time-stamps and more to your dashboards and widgets for simple view comprehension.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Security: Add SSL to your application's HTTP URL

Adding security to your App? Request a SSL certificate, adding HTTPS to your Ubidots Application.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Organizations: hiding end-user variables

Learn how Ubidots Administrators can hide or reveal variables to end-users within any Organization.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Creating Conditional Events and Alerts

How to create Conditional Events to trigger sensor and actuator data-based Alerts.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Events: Was my event triggered? How to check the event's Log

Was the event triggered? Access the event's Log in your Ubidots application and trace the triggers data.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Simulate Data with Ubidots

Learn how to simulate a dummy device as a Virtual Machine with dummy data in Ubidots to accelerate your application's design.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Ubidots Display Language

Toggle between English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese translations to develop and understand Ubidots the way you wish.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

How to Export a Variable's Data

Learn how to export your Variable's data in a CSV, human-readable format.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Using context to display text in Ubidots widgets

Learn how to store metadata in Ubidots variables.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

How to Change a Variable's Description Icon

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Schedule Automated Reports

Schedule reports for when you need data the most

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Ubidots Basics: Applications, Organizations, and Users Explained

Your Ubidots App architecture can be compiled in a number of different combinations. Learn the basics of Organizations, Users, and Apps.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Exporting an Organizations' Data from Ubidots

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Events: Create a Webhook

Learn how to setup a Webhook using Ubidots Events Engine

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Limits: What are they and how to use them

Learn to manage limits in Ubidots - a powerful feature for IoT application providers and resellers

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: How Do I Change my App Domain?

Host your IoT App under a custom domain

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Application Branding: How to customize your Ubidots user interface

Learn to customize your IoT application's logo, colors, login portal, language, plus other visual components.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Share your dashboard or widget to the public

Learn how to share your dashboards or widgets with a public URL or an embeddable snippet code for a website's HTML source code

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Change default device location

How to change a device's default location

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create Control Widgets in Ubidots

How to create Control Widgets for remote device management

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create Table Widgets in Ubidots

Learn how to create Table Widgets with Ubidots Dashboards

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Bar Chart and Histograms Setting Customization

Customize you histograms and bar charts data display in Ubidots

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Adjust data time range in a Variable

How to adjust the visible time range of a variable

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Events: Creating a Geofence Alert

Learn to create a geofence to trigger an event when a device leaves a particular boundary.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

How to Change the Device and Variable Description

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Events: Send an alert when your device is inactive

Learn to trigger an event whenever your devices are inactive

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Delete a Device, Variable, and/or a Variable's Data

Learn to delete a device, variable, and/or a specific set of a variable's data

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Create a Time Stamp Widget

In this article you will learn how to create a time stamp widget to show the time set by your connected devices using a Particle Photon

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Create Metric Widgets in Ubidots

Learn to display max, min, average, count, sum or last value using Metric Widgets.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Making your own MQTT library

The purpose of this article is to help you to develop your own script for sending data to Ubidots using MQTT and the Arduino IDE

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

How to adjust the Device Name and Variable Name

Identify your devices and variables simply with "friendly names" to fit your project nomenclature.

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

How to create a real-time map?

Properly send location data so it can be displayed in Ubidots

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Ubidots Basics: Devices, Variables, Dashboards, and Alerts

Learn to create default and synthetic variables from your devices to display the data in personalized dashboards

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Test MQTT using MQTTLens with Ubidots

Get familiar with the concept of MQTT using Ubidots

Written by Isabel Lopez
Updated over a week ago

Find your TOKEN from your Ubidots account

Every Ubidots user has a private and unique TOKEN. Find it quickly with these simple steps.

Written by David Sepúlveda
Updated over a week ago

Insert Custom Fields inside Event's messages

Include dynamic data from Devices and Variables inside your alerts.

Written by Gustavo Andrés Angulo
Updated over a week ago