AdaFruit IO meets my basic criteria as it has support for HTTP/S clients (it also has an MQTT interface which I will look at in a future post) and the API is well documented.

My first Proof of Concept (PoC) was to build a desktop client which used the HttpWebRequest (for ease of porting to NetMF) classes to upload data.

The program uploaded one of three simulated values to AdaFruit.IO every 10 seconds.

I found the username, group, and feed keys to be case sensitive so pay close attention to the values displayed in the webby UI or copy n paste.

program.cs

 class Program
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         string adaFruitIOApiBaseUrl = "https://IO.adafruit.com/api/v2/";
         string adaFruitIOUserName = "YourUserName"; // This is mixed case & case sensitive
         string adaFruitIOApiKey = "YourAPIKey";
         // The feed group and feed key are forced to lower case by UI
         const string feedGroup = "";
         //const string feedGroup = "devduinov2-dot-2";
         const string temperatureKey = "t";
         const double temperatureBase = 20.0;
         const double temperatureRange = 10.0;
         const string humidityKey = "h";
         const double humidityBase = 70.0;
         const double humidityRange = 20.0;
         const string batteryVoltageKey = "v";
         const double batteryVoltageBase = 3.00;
         const double batteryVoltageRange = -1.00;
         TimeSpan dataUpdateDelay = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10);
         Random random = new Random();

         while (true)
         {
            double temperature = temperatureBase + random.NextDouble() * temperatureRange;
            Console.WriteLine("Temperature {0}°C", temperature.ToString("F1"));
            AdaFruitIoFeedUpdate(adaFruitIOApiBaseUrl, adaFruitIOUserName, adaFruitIOApiKey, feedGroup, temperatureKey, temperature.ToString("F1"));

            Thread.Sleep(dataUpdateDelay);

            double humidity = humidityBase + random.NextDouble() * humidityRange;
            Console.WriteLine("Humidity {0}%", humidity.ToString("F0"));
            AdaFruitIoFeedUpdate(adaFruitIOApiBaseUrl, adaFruitIOUserName, adaFruitIOApiKey, feedGroup, humidityKey, humidity.ToString("F0"));

            Thread.Sleep(dataUpdateDelay);

            double batteryVoltage = batteryVoltageBase + random.NextDouble() * batteryVoltageRange;
            Console.WriteLine("Battery voltage {0}V", batteryVoltage.ToString("F2"));
            AdaFruitIoFeedUpdate(adaFruitIOApiBaseUrl, adaFruitIOUserName, adaFruitIOApiKey, feedGroup, batteryVoltageKey, batteryVoltage.ToString("F2"));

            Thread.Sleep(dataUpdateDelay);
         }
      }

client.cs

      public void AdaFruitIoFeedUpdate(string apiBaseUrl, string userName, string apiKey, string group, string feedKey, string value, int httpRequestTimeoutmSec = 2500, int httpRequestReadWriteTimeoutmSec = 5000)
      {
         string feedUrl;

         if (group.Trim() == string.Empty)
         {
            feedUrl = apiBaseUrl + userName + @"/feeds/" + feedKey + @"/data";
         }
         else
         {
            feedUrl = apiBaseUrl + userName + @"/feeds/" + group.Trim() + "." + feedKey + @"/data";
         }

         Console.WriteLine(" Feed URL :{0}", feedUrl);

         try
         {
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(feedUrl);
            {
               string payload = @"{""value"": """ + value + @"""}";

               byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(payload);

               DateTime httpRequestedStartedAtUtc = DateTime.UtcNow;

               request.Method = "POST";
               request.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
               request.ContentType = @"application/json";
               request.Headers.Add("X-AIO-Key", apiKey);
               request.KeepAlive = false;
               request.Timeout = httpRequestTimeoutmSec;
               request.ReadWriteTimeout = httpRequestReadWriteTimeoutmSec;

               using (Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream())
               {
                  stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
               }

               using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
               {
                  Console.WriteLine(" Status: " + response.StatusCode + " : " + response.StatusDescription);
               }

               TimeSpan duration = DateTime.UtcNow - httpRequestedStartedAtUtc;
               Console.WriteLine(" Duration: " + duration.ToString());
            }
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
            Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
            throw;
         }
      }
   }

This approach seemed to work pretty reliably