YvesGoeleven

There is a free environment to run experiments in, no worries.

But I left it out of the pricing page on purpose. I needed to know if people would actually sign up for the service even if they had to pay for it.

There is no point in just giving something away if you don't know you can ever turn it into something sustainable.

After lot's of time wasted, I noticed the problem. I had the wrong baudrate set, so the data sent as gibberish #doh

I'm monitoring my chilli seedlings remotely, the netduino is monitoring soil temp and sending the temp info to my phone (remotely). Now I'm adding capability to remotely turn on the illuminescent light. (I don't have a cat).

It's good feedback though that you guys are hesitant to hook devices up to the internet. I'm pretty confident it's safe for telemetry information, maybe commands that change your devices' state may be a bit different, I guess it depends on what you want to turn on/off.

Yes, that crossed my mind

But I won't be using a webserver, from a security & manageability point of view I don't want anyone to call into my devices. Instead I want them to call out, to an internet hosted (and well known) servicebus. Trusted apps can than send messages to that isecured endpoint.

PS: I will be releasing that bus to the public in a few days or weeks as well...

Yes please!