Particle IoT

Get connected and start building your Internet of Things project right away with Particle, the companion app to the Core, Photon and Electron.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Utilities	Free	Particle Industries Inc.	iPhone, iPad, iPod

The Photon is a tiny but powerful Wi-Fi development board from the team at Particle (formerly known as Spark). Your Photon and this app are all you need to get started with your IoT project or prototype; the kit comes pre-loaded with our firmware libraries and is connected to the cloud out of the box. Also connect and manage your Electron, our new cellular IoT development kit.

Download Particle app to easily connect your Photon to a Wi-Fi network in a few simple steps. The app will take you through the entire set-up process step by step until the LED on your board is breathing cyan - indicating it's connected and ready to be programmed!
Set up your Electrons with ease from the app, scan the SIM card provided with your Electron kit using your phone camera for quick setup.

Along with getting connected, app contains 'Tinker', a quick start sandbox that will help you get your prototype or project up and running in minutes. Tinker exposes basic pin functions through our API, allowing you to read sensor data and blink LEDs by just tapping a pin name on screen -not a single line of code needed. It provides an intuitive environment for tinkering and prototyping even if your Core/Photon/Electron is the first piece of programmable hardware you've ever picked up!

Reviews

Barely functional interface with minimal usage
Overzeetop

Update - After finding that the Tinker functionality is not robustly implemented in the hardware, and the apps failure to recognize incompatible installation may actually be a firmware shortcoming, I'm adding a couple stars back. I still think this app is very limited as it doesn't allow any debugging, upgrading, flashing, or recovery for devices.

Please add iPad support
devvinu

Basic functionality works in low res, not a native ipad app. I like particle products, would be great to have an iPad app with full functionality of web IDE, event monitor etc. built in!!

No t402 support
hateslack

Does not seem to support the t402 tracker module. But then the Web IDE does not support the module either.

Barely functional interface with no device update
Overzeetop

If there were a one trick pony, this would be it. Assuming, of course, the trick was staring ahead and sending you random status. 10 Is my Photon connected? Yes! 20 Can I send a test ? Yes! 30 Can I switch to tinker? No, because the device isn’t connected, goto 10

Why Remove your best feature?
jaylay23

The only reason I used this app was because it would display my devices WAN IP address ( I don’t have a static ISP), so I could ssh easily into my devices without needing to come up with a third party way of figuring out my WAN address. Why take this out??

Super terrible, why do we need this?
Chip Bobbert

This app is brutally bad. I’ve setup numerous photons in my student lab and frequently it just doesn’t work and nothing you can do will make it connect. There’s no diagnostics readily apparent. You’ll be quick to get a fail message but have no idea why. I suppose it wouldn’t really matter if they did give you a reason as no tools exist to correct it. There’s basically no desktop support either. If you want to configure this you’ll be getting into terminal and hombrew. I setup about a dozen of these per semester and one or two simply won’t connect to the app. I can’t for the life of me figure out why I keep buying these things.

Does well what it’s meant to do
Jaafer

Useful for quick checkup of online devices or for setting up a new device. I wish it has some options for saving latest published messages or for creating a custom interfaces using cloud functions. Looking forward for more features from Particle’s awesome team.

Don’t buy the Mesh edition yet.
AlbertMartin

Don’t buy the Mesh edition yet. They “push” these devices after struggling with production and seems they did not do the appropriated testing. There are many problems when creating the mesh network and the apps fails miserably during the mesh setup. Only works fine for the Photon version.