Nodes to assist with the integration, automation and communication of Node-RED and IoT devices with Thinger.io
To see what has changed in recent versions, have a look a the project's Changelog.
Documentation regarding the module and nodes can be found here.
Have a valid Thinger.io cloud instance with capacity to install a new plugin.
Have a local instance of Node-RED with the following characteristics:
To install the plugin on the Thinger.io instance follow the instructions from the documentation.
To install the stable version use the Menu - Manage palette - Install
option and search for node-red-contrib-thinger, or run the following
command in your Node-RED user directory:
npm install node-red-contrib-thinger
To connect the Node-RED instance to Thinger.io follow the instructions from here.
Once installed, detailed documentation of each node can be found in the Help dialog of Node-RED.
Below is a brief description of the actions allowed:
- Iterate over the assets from the Thinger.io Platform (asset iterator node).
- Create buckets when an event occurs (bucket create node).
- Read from data buckets (bucket read node).
- Writing to data buckets (bucket write node).
- Calling devices callbacks with autoprovisioning (device callback node).
- Creating any type of devices or updating its details (device create node).
- Reading a device resource when an event occurs (device read node).
- Subscribing to device resources at a given interval (device stream node).
- Sending data to a connected device (device write node).
- Calling endpoints (endpoint call node).
- Reading properties of devices, types or groups (property read node).
- Writing and modifying properties of devices, types or groups (property write node).
- Detecting different events of devices, buckets, endpoints and others (server events node).
- Reading files (plain, csv, json, images, ...) from file storages (read storage node).
- Storing files (plain, csv, json, images, ...) to file storages (write storage node).
The class is licensed under the MIT License:
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