I wanted to give the spark fun data service a try, and of course i love my ESP8266 so why not combine the two?!!?

this will be a mini review of the service as well. Getting data to the server was really easy. They provided and HTTP generation library that gives you a string that you write to your client. This works well with the ESP8266 because you just write it to the serial port.

The output options are kinda limited with the service. they give you a stream of the data but that's not very helpful to watch trends....

They do however allow you to pull the data with jQuery, so i was able to make this webpage with only javascript.

which is nice since you don't need a server, you can just run the HTML file locally.

on my first test, i just let the ESP8266 go, with out any error recovery or wifi reconnect attempts and it handled it remarkable well it would go 4 to 8 hours before it stopped uploading. After adding a watchdog timer to reset the arduino, if it failed to upload 3 times a row, i now have 100 % upload time.

here is the code

I will of course answer questions!