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12. Open your Xively feed by clicking the Feed URL – you should see the recorded data
Figure 49: Xively feed overview page
Setup for standard HTTP POST or PUT data upload
Let's assume that the user wants to send sensor data to his server script that accepts POST method
for data upload. The user's server script is available at the address
www.userdomain.com/PoKeysDataUpload.asp. The user also wants that the data in the POST stream
to have the HTTP type of 'text/plain' and preceded with the string 'MyData: '. The data should be
transferred every 10 minutes. The settings are displayed in Figure 50.
To setup PoKeys to use these settings, the following steps must be taken (enter text without '
quotes):
1. Open Device > Server reports configuration.
2. Select 'Standard HTTP request’ and check HTTP POST option
3. Enter 'www.userdomain.com/PoKeysDataUpload.asp' in the Destination field
4. Enter 'text/plain' in the 'Content-type' field.
5. Enter 'MyData: ' in the 'Data header' field
6. Enter the server's IP address and port number in the fields below.
7. Enter 600 in the update time field
8. Click Close and click Send to device button.
9. Go to Device > Web interface settings and define entries as described in the ‘Web interface’
chapter of this manual. To enable uploading of the dashboard item to the web server, select
‘Server reports’ as the user. The ‘Item caption’ field is used to identify the datastream.
10. Save the settings again by clicking 'Send to device' button.
11. Make sure the PoKeys device has properly configured network settings and that it is
connected to the internet