Getting started visualizing IOT data with Grafana

A friend asked for help getting his “IOT” sensor data into Grafana for visualization, so I wrote up this minimal, bare-bones process, which is applicable to CentOS6/7


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.funkypenguin.co.nz/note/adding-custom-data-to-influxdb-and-grafana/