MQTT is a lightweight communication platform, ideal for messaging between servers and IoT devices. ThingsBoard is a powerful IoT platform which supports device provisioning and telemetry logging via MQTT. One very useful feature is the
Graphing with ThingsBoard can be a little odd at first, especially when selecting which devices to graph. However it is also a very powerful tool. If you have multiple devices of the same type, you
ThingsBoard allows you to pull the latest telemetry from a single device via the API, however if you want to pull that data into another system (e.g. a small display screen or to analyse results
To use ThingsBoard data in other applications, you can pull the latest telemetry from the API. Details for the API and background about obtaining the JWT token can be found at ThingsBoard Rest API. The
As well as graphing, wouldn’t it be useful if ThingsBoard could send a mail alert when a particular parameter for a device goes above/blow a threshold, or when telemetry has not been received for a
Thingsboard is a great IoT logging platform, however some management of data can be impossible to do from the GUI and can get annoying. The following database hacks provide a workaround to some of the