The product works very well as advertised. The support has been excellent. The fact that we do not have to deal with cellular service providers is the main reason for choosing Particle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation is updated prematurely. Some features were not available with current release but the documentation provided instructions for future releases which led to costly time consuming troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Particle console is a really powerful tool that gives you access to all of your devices on a single dashboard. The ability to OTA flash any software updates to your particle products is huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Coming from the Arduino IDE, the learning curve in VS Code/Particle Workbench is steep. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Paticle universe has been very well thought out and and implemented. It is rich in depth and functionality. The documentation is extensive and constantly evolving and the forums and support staff have always had timely solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Any system that offers such a range of features comes with layers of complexity. While most problems can be solved through the documentation, it's not always easy to find where, in the documentation, the answer lives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how you can make a mesh network and connect these sensors together over the cloud. Update them without having to connect them to your computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only problem i've noticed is that sometimes my photon just freezes up for a second. If I'm trying to make something with a quick clock, there's times where it goes behind the timer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and implementation. Initially I had some issues with my hardware, no fault of Particle mind you, and the help desk was extremely helpful in resolving my issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The fact that I had to use a terminal program (Particle CLI) to generate an Access Token to access Particle Variables and Functions from a custom script. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best, for me, is the lack of "need to be there". I can update, upgrade, inspect, and interact with, no matter how far from me it is. No cables, no plug-in and -out.

The libraries are great, the online programming website and the online console are easy to use and very helpful.

It's definitely my preferred platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice to have a "customer" iPhone app for setting WiFi credentials. But since i install my devices and furniture myself at my customers, that rarely is a big problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that they make the hardware part of doing IoT dev less painful. I don't have a hardware background so programming firmware isn't something I have much experience with. I like that provisioning a new particle device is super easy and that writing firmware and getting it sync'd to your device is simple and can be done over wifi or cellular instead of having to connect with USB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it would be nice if I could use the particle ecosystem with more kinds of IoT devices. Their software is geared toward Particle devices which isn't surprising, but it would be nice to use other kinds of hardware with their studio / device management tools. They used to support Rasbberry Pi development but I believe mostly discontinued support for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Device OS API is awesome, also webhooks are super easy to implement and integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use BLE in my stuff and the BLE.scan() function shouldn't be blocking when it's provided with a callback function. It should just call the callback whenever it needs to. This has impacted my device's UX because buttons now have to be held for several seconds instead of just pressed momentarily. I'm not sure how feasible this is, but I would like to be able to have a more Javascript-esque way of doing things: for instance, I'd really like a 'setTimeout()' style function or a 'setInterval()' way to run certain functions periodically. I would also like more asynchronous functionality to be built in especially since the internet is such a huge part of why anyone uses Particle. I'm not sure how feasible this is either, but I would LOVE support for MicroPython. I've recently been working with XBees from Digi which are programmed in MicroPython and it's to C++ what a Cadillac is to a lawnmower. However, I'm not sure this could be done while retaining the performance of C++. Even if a tiny performance drop was a consequence, it would be nice to just have the option. Also, there are times when I'm not in an area with good cell service, and it would be much nicer to be able to flash sketches to my Boron locally from the web IDE. Just a thought. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The backend part of the Particle is a great feature. Being an Embedded engineer and someone who has more embedded software and hardware experience but not so much of cloud backend experience, i have found the particle cloud feature along with something as simple as IFTTT routines opens up multiple possibilities. great functionality for a reasonable price. its not flawless but Nothing which is not fixable but just gets a bit annoying sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have found few problems with the online IDE. sometimes the code I am flashing won't work I would change literally nothing in the code just do a reset and reflash and the same code works fine. Nothing which is not fixable but just gets a bit annoying sometimes. great functionality for a reasonable price. The backend part of the Particle is simply a great feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplicity of the board as well as the amount of ports made it easy to connect an ample amount of components to the board. I also liked how I was able to pair multiple boards together in order to transfer data between the devices. I was able to store all my data in the particle cloud from all devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unpairing a device was difficult at times but pairing is very simple with the qr code. It took me a minute to figure out that if the particle was paired to another person or students account that they had to go and unpair the device so that I will be able to add it to my account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.