Errata

Errata for Getting Started with the Photon

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted by	Date submitted
Printed	Page 85 3rd paragraph - the example curl script	The example test curl script is incorrect. According to the community.particle.io forrum, the api.spark.io URL was deprecated some time ago. Therefore, the script is incorrect. The correct working script is: curl https://api.particle.io/v1/devices/<deviceid>/led -d access_token=<accesstoken> -d "args=on" I just bought this book. It is the first release, 2015-04-24, of the first edition. Correspondingly, the code on page 89 does not function. The URL on line 7 of the HTML code, api.spark.io, is deprecated. It should be api.particle.io instead. However, even with that change, the HTML code does not function. I have yet to figure out to to get it to work, and the community forum has not yet replied to my post.	Robert Mumme	Sep 29, 2019
Printed, PDF, ePub	Page 115 4th paragraph	The paragraph reads: "The fancy graphical display is courtesy of a really handy JavaScript plug-in called JustGage. The web page for this can be found in the file p_09_light_meter.html along with the JustGage JavaScript libraries." The JustGage library is NOT found in the p_09_light_meter.html file, as there IS NO p_09_light_meter file. In fact there are no other instructions on how to find and where to save this file. Additionally, the Raphael library (a dependency of JustGage) is not available, and similarly must be downloaded and saved to the project folder (containing the p_09_light_meter.html file.	Doug Strickland	Jul 05, 2016
Printed	Page 157-167 In software: "Spark." should be replaced by "Particle."	In the software for Publish and Subscribe, "Spark." must be replaced by "Particle." Link on page 163 middle of the page, is not correct. It should be: https://docs.particle.io/reference/firmware/photon/	Cary Davids	May 02, 2017
Printed	Page 159 bottom	Simon Monk promises: "You will learn how these work later." -But he doesn't explain nothing about "some strange parameters" as event and data in the function soundAlarm on page 159.	Anonymous	May 02, 2016
Printed	Page 175 United States	the link for the USB driver returns a Spark.zip file that does not provide a useful USB driver.	Arthur Lange	May 19, 2015
Printed	Page 175 United States	The USB driver for Win 7 64 bits in the Spark.zip is a pain to load. the help community at particle.io has suggestions, and the process is not well documented. Having an unsigned digital driver is not an optimum solution if you are not a Jedi Windows Master.	Arthur Lange	May 20, 2015