Kamis, 20 Juni 2019

Thingsboard Mqtt

Creating an IOT or MQTT Dashboard Using Thingsboard

mqtt-dashboard-iconThingsboard is an open source IOT platform for data visualization.
It is available for download and installation on your own hardware or as an online service for demonstration purposes.
In this tutorial we will configure a simple Dashboard to display data from sensors using MQTT and Python.


There are two sensors, a main door sensor and a main light sensor. Our final demo dashboard will appear like this
thingsboard-dashboard-finished
The first step is to create your own demo account by signing up here.
Once you have an account and have verified it you can login to thingsboard here.

Process Overview

  • Create device or devices
  • Assign device to Widget
  • Assign Widget to Dashboard
  • Add new widgets and edit as necessary
The diagram below illustrates the process:

Thingsboard-Data-ModelDevices

The first thing you need to create is a device.
Go to devices and click on the add device circle in the lower right hand corner
tihngsboard-add-device
You will need to give the device a name and add a description. Leave the is gateway box un-checked.
add-new-device
Click ADD when done.
Now click on the device card to edit the device, and then click the tick icon to display and edit the device properties.
thingsboard-device-edit
Each device is assigned an access token which is used by the device to identify itself to the thingsboard platform.
You will need to copy this access token for use in your MQTT client. You can do this using the copy access token tab.
edit-device-thingsborad
Or by clicking on the manage credentials tab
device-credentials
The access token you will use as the username in MQTT. There is no password.
The actual physical device is responsible for sending data to thingsboard.
All data is sent to the following topic id:
v1/devices/me/telemetry
Note: A device need not be a single device like a sensor as devices publish data as a JSON object.
The device client attributes can be used to manage the device, but these must first be populated by the client. We will not be using device attributes in this tutorial.
The device is now usable and can receive data.
If you follow the introduction on the thingsboard website they use a Javascript client and Node.js to send data.
In this tutorial we will send data using MQTT and a Python client.

Configuring The Python Client

We need to configure the following:
username= access token
password=”” #not used
broker=demo.thngsboard.io
topic=v1/devices/me/telemetry
We also need to package the data in a dictionary object and then convert it to a JSON encoded string to output
Here is my demo script (partial) that simply simulates a light sensor and a door sensor.
python-demo-script-thingsboard
The light is either on or off, and the door is either open or closed.
When I run the script this is what I see on the console.
Running-Demo-Script
To view the results on the device in thingsboard go the device telemetry tab.
thingsboard-telemetry-data
To visualize data from this device we need to configure a dashboard and a display widget.
We start by adding the device to a widget.
To add this device to a widget click on the check box next to last update time
thingsboard-add-device-widget
Now select the widget type (cards) and then use the small circles to select the card type, and then click add to dashboard.
thingsboard-select-widget-type
You can now add the widget to an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard.
thingsboard-add-dashboard
If you tick the checkbox to open the dashboard, when you click ADD the dashboard will open and display the widget.
thingsboard--dashboard

Adding A new Widget to the Dashboard

To add a new widget or edit the dashboard click on the edit (pencil) icon in the lower right corner of the dashboard.
When adding a new widget you first need to select the type of widget.
thingsboard-add-new-widget-select
Now you need to select a data source for the Widget.
thingsboard-add-new-widget-datasourceNow configure the datasource. In the example below our datasource is called house which is the name of the device we configured earlier and we select the main-light property. The Main-door property we added to our first widget.
thingsboard-new-widget-datasource-config
Now you can edit the card settings and change colour and fonts etc.
thingsboard-new-widget-edit
When finished the new widget appears on the screen.
thingsboard-dashboard-finished
As long as the edit icons are showing you can rearrange and edit widgets on the dashboard.
When finished click on the tick icon.
thingsboard-dashboard-edit-icons

Making the Dashboard Public

You can also make the dashboard public which makes it visible to everyone.
thingsboard-dashboard-public

Sending Test Data Using Mosquitto_pub Tool

You can send test data using MQTT and the mosquitto_ pub tool.
You need:
  • Your access token for the username -Ahwpx1r8fNNQbr9JILm3
  • Broker name demo.thingsboard.io
  • topic -v1/devices/me/telemetry
  • JSON Data -“{\”main-light\”:\”OFF \”,\”main-Door\”:\”CLOSED\”}”
Command shown below:
mosquitto_pub -h demo.thingsboard.io -u Ahwpx1r8fNNQbr9JILm3 -t v1/devices/me/telemetry -m "{\"main-light\":\"OFFs \",\"main-Door\":\"CLOSED\"}"

Sending Test Data Using cURL

You can publish data to Thingsboard using http and curl.
The thingsboard website give the various formats supported and example curl commands.
Unfortunately these didn’t work on windows until I escaped the quotes on the data keys and values.
The format I used was the simple format
{"key1":"value1", "key2":"value2"}
The data needs to be JSON encoded .
The ThingsBoard dashboard has two devices a light and door. The JSON data looks like this
“{, \”main-light\”:\”OFF \”,\”main-Door\”:\”OPEN\”}”
Notice I had to escape the quotes around the keys and values.
Here is a command example

curl-data-thingsboard

Video -Creating an MQTT (IOT) Dashboard Using Thingsboard

Here is my demo test house dashboard that I created in the video tutorial. You can download the python scripts used in the video here.
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11 comments

  1. Sir,
    Can you tell me which python script did you use? Because the one I use, thingsboard-1, I get errors:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “primjer1.py”, line 34, in
    client.connect(broker,port)
    File “C:\Users\Korisnik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\paho\mqtt\client.py”, line 839, in connect
    return self.reconnect()
    File “C:\Users\Korisnik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\paho\mqtt\client.py”, line 962, in reconnect
    sock = socket.create_connection((self._host, self._port), source_address=(self._bind_address, 0))
    File “C:\Users\Korisnik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\socket.py”, line 704, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
    File “C:\Users\Korisnik\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\socket.py”, line 745, in getaddrinfo
    for res in _socket.getaddrinfo(host, port, family, type, proto, flags):
    socket.gaierror: [Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed
    Or is there any previous tutorial about connecting sensor to platform via MQTT? And, do you use sensor for real? Or is this just demo version?
    Best r, Milica

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