# Live demos  This guide is meant to show some possibilities for you to do _live demos_ with data. There are plenty of ways to do it, but in this guide we will focus on the following: - Through the Serial (USB), either with [Arduino IDE](#arduino-ide) Serial Monitor (simple) or with [SerialStudio](#serialstudio) (more configurable plots) - Via the online web dashboard available at [dashboard.smartcitizen.me](#using-the-web-dashboard), useful for _long-term_ displays ## Using Serial Tools In this case, we will need a computer with either the [Arduino IDE](https://www.arduino.cc/en/software/) or [SerialStudio](https://serial-studio.github.io/). These tools will be used to plot the data coming from the kit (only one kit at a time), which will be connected via USB with a computer. !!!info "Feeling creative?" If you rather use a more creative approach, you can follow [this guide](https://docs.smartcitizen.me/guides/data/creative-coding.md) for using [processing](https://processing.org) to make these visualisations. ### Arduino IDE After Arduino 2.0 version, you can see the _Serial Monitor_ and the _Serial Plotter_ at the same time. This is very useful to interact with the kit *and* see the data in real time, so we recommend upgrading to Arduino 2.0 for this. If not, you can always use Arduino 1.8.*, but you'll have to switch back and forth between the _Serial Monitor_ and the _Serial Plotter_.  !!!info "Using the Shell" If you are not familiar with it yet, make sure you check the [Shell Guide](https://docs.smartcitizen.me/guides/getting-started/using-the-shell.md) before the next steps. !!!example "Step-by-step" * Connect to your SCK via the _Port_ selection * Open the _Serial Monitor_ and type in the _monitor_ command (avoiding the _milliseconds_ and _timestamp_ columns with the `-noms` and `-notime` options). In this example we will check the temperature by issuing the following command: ``` monitor -noms -notime temperature ``` * Open the _Serial Plotter_ and enjoy a nice looking graph! ### SerialStudio [SerialStudio](https://serial-studio.github.io/) is a great tool for visualising data and make dashboards with your kit connected to a computer. It's more advanced than the Arduino Serial Monitor because you can customise how your data will be displayed, add graphs, widgets, and save the configuration for each device.  !!!info "Examples" You can see the examples [here](https://github.com/fablabbcn/smartcitizen-toolkit/tree/master/serialstudio) ## Using the web dashboard For this, you can visit the [dashboard](https://dashboard.smartcitizen.me) with a particular ID. For instance, [this device](https://dashboard.smartcitizen.me/?id=15618). You can toggle some options on the side menu, but by default you will have the _Auto Update_ check active. If the kit you are checking is sending data, updates should come little by little.  !!!info "No graphs? No problem!" If you don't want to see the graphs on the dashboard, you can remove them by deactivating the _Show Graphs_ on the side pannel. This will leave a neat view of the sensors. You can also choose which sensors, and their order, to clean up the view in case your kit has many sensors connected.  In case you want to change the interval, so that data comes in more frequently, you can do so by [Using the Shell](https://docs.smartcitizen.me/guides/getting-started/using-the-shell.md). To avoid checking that guide again, this is the command to issue if you want to read and publish the sensors every 5 seconds (which will send updates very quickly, although with a bit of delay because data needs to fly from your kit to the platform): ``` config -readint 5 -pubint 5 ``` When you are done, make sure you reset the reading and publication interval back to normal, to avoid cluttering our beloved platform with unnecessary data **and to drain your kits battery** ``` config -readint 60 -pubint 180 ```