# Public Channel Setup

If you want to have data from all or some of your devices visualized in one place, you can put them into a public channel. Last year, we did a project where we sent our devices to monitor coffee machines around the world - in the offices of Sigfox operators! [Here's the project](https://simplehw.eu/coffee-machine-monitoring-project).

**You can have a public channel like that too!**

## Step-by-step setup

1. First of all, you need to have **some devices** to visualize data from. If you haven't registered yours yet, please follow [this guide](https://ask.simplehw.eu/kb/simple-api-6-generation/i-am-iot-platform-provider/first-message).
2. Once you have the devices set up and ready (feel free to choose from the guides in the IO Frog category), you can create a new dashboard. First, go to **Group settings** and there, choose **Public channels**.

![image](https://2906494444-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FnuFF26iZs7gQn740zeZD%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-0ef08b64304045e49953aa71278b3102573062da%2Fq1.png?alt=media)

1. **Name** your channel, add a **description** and click the **Add/Update** button. When you do that, you will get an automatically generated **URL** to your public channel.

![image](https://2906494444-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FnuFF26iZs7gQn740zeZD%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-9f8ba2aff6a0df11cfbc8e18fbe11b378f111311%2Fq2.png?alt=media)

1. **Go to your URL** and that's it! You can now share the URL with the world and all the data from your devices will be visible there. Here's a screenshot of our coffee monitoring project:

![image](https://2906494444-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FnuFF26iZs7gQn740zeZD%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-fc173b8296c1d28388f9faae3651a757d80d0335%2Fq3.png?alt=media)