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# 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](/kb/simple-api-6-generation/i-am-iot-platform-provider/first-message.md).
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](/files/gu822qVHbcJXo5OugvEx)

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](/files/hBAIRBKfrWouxyHchzCp)

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](/files/5tOnsJfG8LBSnM89ESGS)