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Talk to your devices

Connect Zafron to Claude, ChatGPT or any assistant that supports MCP, and ask about your IoT fleet in plain words. No queries, no exports, no switching tabs.

"Has the barn sensor missed any uplinks this week?"

"What was the average greenhouse temperature each day?"

"Build me a dashboard for my weather station."

Your assistant looks up the answer in your own Zafron data.

What you can do​

  • Get answers. Ask for the latest reading, trends over a week, or why a device went quiet.
  • Spot problems early. Your assistant can tell whether a device is reporting on schedule and point out gaps.
  • Build dashboards by describing them. Say what you want to see, and a live dashboard appears in Zafron. See Generative Dashboards →
  • Set up alerts. "Email me when humidity goes above 80%" becomes a working rule.
  • Onboard new hardware faster. Paste a raw payload and have your assistant decode it and set up the decoder for you.

Connect in a minute​

The Dashboards page in the Zafron app has a Connect your assistant panel with copy buttons for each client. If you'd rather set it up by hand, you need two things:

Server URLhttps://api.zafron.dev/mcp
OAuth Client IDzafron-mcp (leave the secret blank)

Claude: add a custom connector, paste the server URL, and set the OAuth Client ID under Advanced settings.

Claude Code: run this, then run /mcp to sign in.

claude mcp add --transport http --client-id zafron-mcp zafron https://api.zafron.dev/mcp

ChatGPT: turn on Developer mode (Settings → Connectors → Advanced), create a connector with the server URL, and choose OAuth.

Grok: at grok.com/connectors, choose New Connector → Custom and paste the server URL.

Anything else: add a remote MCP server over streamable HTTP with the URL and client ID above.

Then sign in with your Zafron account.

You stay in control​

When you sign in, you choose what your assistant can do. Grant read access to start. Add dashboards, rules, decoders or data ingestion only if you want your assistant to make changes there. Your assistant sees only your own account, and you can reconnect at any time to change what you allowed.

Good to know​

  • Refer to devices by name. You don't need ids or serials.
  • Your assistant checks with you before it adds test data, because test readings are stored like real ones and can trigger your alerts.
  • Your plan applies. How far back your assistant can look depends on your plan, and daily and weekly statistics need a paid plan.
  • Times are in UTC unless a device has a time zone set.