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122 articles in this collection
Written by
Agustin Pelaez,
Gustavo Andrés Angulo,
David Sepúlveda
and 6 others
Plugins: Integrate Golioth Output Streams with Ubidots
Send data from Golioth LightDB Stream to Ubidots.
Written by
Alejandro Rosso
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
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
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
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
Alejandro Rosso
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 yesterday
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