9/27/22, 2:57 PM Create an MQTT Dashboard Using Thingsboard

Updated:September 27, 2021 ⁄ By steve

Creating an IOT or MQTT Dashboard Using

Thingsboard
Thingsboard is an open source IOT platform for data
visualization.

It is available for download and installation on your own hardware or as an online Polls
service for demonstration purposes.
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In this tutorial we will configure a simple Dashboard to display data from sensors
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There are two sensors, a main door sensor and a main light sensor. Our final demo
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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

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The first thing you need to create is a device. Search … 

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Now click on the device card to edit the device, and then click the tick icon to display

and edit the device properties.

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.

Or by clicking on the manage credentials tab

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The access token you will use as the username in MQTT. There is no password.

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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.

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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.

To view the results on the device in Thingsboard go the device telemetry tab.

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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

Now select the widget type (cards) and then use the small circles to select the card
type, and then click add to dashboard.

You can now add the widget to an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard.

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If you tick the check box to open the dashboard, when you click ADD the dashboard
will open and display the widget.

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.

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Now configure
the data source. In the example below our data source 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.

Now you can edit the card settings and change colour and fonts etc.

When finished the new widget appears on the screen.

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As long as the edit icons are showing you can rearrange and edit widgets on the
dashboard.

When finished click on the tick icon.

Making the Dashboard Public

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

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 Ahwpx1r8fNNQbr9JIL

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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

Video -Creating an MQTT (IOT) Dashboard Using Thingsboard

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Creating an MQTT (IOT) Dashboard Usi…

Usi…

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

References:

Thingsboard website
Thingsboard Getting started video

Related Tutorials:

IOT and MQTT Dashboards and Platforms-Working Notes

Node Red Overview for Beginners
Create an MQTT broker Using CloudMQTT

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Sokolov says:
January 26, 2022 at 8:47 pm

Hi, i create device and upload some sensor data. How can we import data from personal
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steve says:
January 27, 2022 at 2:32 pm

Hi

Sorry I don’t know as I don’t use thingsboard anymore I just left the tutorial online as it
might still be useful.

Rgds

Steve

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Leon says:
July 29, 2021 at 9:06 am

Hi Steve,
How can I create multiple devices with telemetry to connect to thingsboard? For example,
I want to create 100 devices. Can you help me? Thank you very much.

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steve says:
July 29, 2021 at 11:37 am

Hi

Sorry but I don’t work much with thingsboard. I tried it and wrote this tutorial but I’m
not a user

Rgds

Steve

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Leon says:
July 29, 2021 at 8:44 am

How can I emulate multiple devices in code?

For example, I want to emulate 100 devices. Can you help me?

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steve says:
July 29, 2021 at 11:38 am

What code python?

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steve says:
July 30, 2021 at 8:22 am

I have a script that I wrote for testing connection limits on a broker which I
thought I made available but haven’t. It connects to a broker with x client
connections and then publishes a message would that be of interest as a starting
point?

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Leon says:
August 1, 2021 at 8:50 am

Can you show me your script? Thank you so much.

steve says:
August 2, 2021 at 3:08 pm

The script download is at the end of the tutorial here is the link

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/download/mqtt-dashboard-using-
thingsboard/

Rgds

Steve

Dmitry says:
May 27, 2021 at 9:59 am

Hi Steve!

I need some assistance in building IoT system using Thingsboard. In short, I have to
receive BLE devices messages which are polled by the gateway. I understand how
establish MQTT connection between gateway and TB, actually it’s already been done. The
challenge for me is to parse data that appears on the server – gateway sends data all in
one JSON packet and I can’t find the way to split big JSON packet consisting BLE data and
then parsh and to populate it over TB logical devices.

If you have ideas regarding my task please contact me, I’m ready to pay for you help.

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steve says:
May 27, 2021 at 3:17 pm

I’m not a big thingsboard user I will take a quick look and get back to you. Are you
seeing the actual data coming in?

RGds

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Dmitry Medvedev says:

May 28, 2021 at 4:56 am

Yes, the data is there but I have no idea how to manage them using rule chain
engine (I guest I should you it since it has several tools to transform incoming data
and even write JS scripts).

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steve says:
May 28, 2021 at 9:23 am

Using rule chains isn’t something I’ve looked at but it likely the correct approach.
Sorry I can’t be more help.

Rgds

Steve

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Charles Guerin says:

April 30, 2021 at 1:08 pm

I can’t figure out how to send values to my esp8266 from a knob control… I can send rpc
with the rpc buttons but don’t understand how the knob control is configured. Any
suggestions? I just want to set a set point on my device.

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steve says:
May 1, 2021 at 8:12 am

Hi

contact me using the ask steve page and We can set up a skype call and I will show you
what I have done. I keep meaning to make a video on it

Rgds

Steve

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Eduardo Oliveira says:

June 9, 2021 at 4:39 pm

I’m using knob control with rpc to control a dc engine but every time that I
refreshed thingsboard the dashboard shows a timeout. Could you help me to solve
this?

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Sorry but I’m not a big user of thingsboard and haven’t seen a dashboard
timeout but I’ve only used the online demo version

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Raimundas says:
March 19, 2021 at 9:05 am

Hello,

I want to publish Tasmota sensors to Thigsboard, but can’t get data … maybe who knows
what i’m not doing so? Here is part of the logo from my Tasmota.

00:00:04 WIF: Connected

00:00:04 HTP: Web server active on Rekuperatorius with IP address 192.168.1.204

11:55:08 MQT: Attempting connection…

11:55:08 MQT: Connected

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/LWT = Online (retained)

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/cmnd/POWER =

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/INFO1 =

{“Module”:”Generic”,”Version”:”6.7.1(sonoff)”,”FallbackTopic”:”cmnd/tasmo_fb/”,”Group
Topic”:”sonoffs”}

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/INFO2 =

{“WebServerMode”:”Admin”,”Hostname”:”Rekuperatorius”,”IPAddress”:”192.168.1.204″}

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/INFO3 = {“RestartReason”:”Software/System

restart”}

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/RESULT = {“POWER1″:”OFF”}

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/POWER1 = OFF

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/RESULT = {“POWER2″:”OFF”}

11:55:08 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/POWER2 = OFF

11:55:16 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/STATE = {“Time”:”2021-03-

19T11:55:16″,”Uptime”:”0T00:00:16″,”UptimeSec”:16,”Heap”:28,”SleepMode”:”Dynamic
”,”Sleep”:50,”LoadAvg”:19,”MqttCount”:1,”POWER1″:”OFF”,”POWER2″:”OFF”,”Wifi”:
{“AP”:2,”SSId”:”xxxxxxxx-
65″,”BSSId”:”A4:91:B1:69:A7:5F”,”Channel”:11,”RSSI”:52,”LinkCount”:1,”Downtime”:”0T
00:00:05″}}

11:55:16 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/SENSOR = {“Time”:”2021-03-

19T11:55:16″,”AM2301″:{“Temperature”:14.1,”Humidity”:33.3},”TempUnit”:”C”}

12:00:16 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/STATE = {“Time”:”2021-03-

19T12:00:16″,”Uptime”:”0T00:05:16″,”UptimeSec”:316,”Heap”:28,”SleepMode”:”Dynami
c”,”Sleep”:50,”LoadAvg”:19,”MqttCount”:1,”POWER1″:”OFF”,”POWER2″:”OFF”,”Wifi”:
{“AP”:2,”SSId”:”Bitininku-
65″,”BSSId”:”A4:91:B1:69:A7:5F”,”Channel”:11,”RSSI”:54,”LinkCount”:1,”Downtime”:”0T
00:00:05″}}

12:00:16 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/SENSOR = {“Time”:”2021-03-

19T12:00:16″,”AM2301″:{“Temperature”:13.9,”Humidity”:33.3},”TempUnit”:”C”}

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Raimundas says:
March 22, 2021 at 9:20 am

Hi, i’m using Thingsboard and Tasmota flashed on ESP-12E.

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steve says:
March 23, 2021 at 4:24 pm

Hi

You need to include the device key as part of the username as in the tutorial are
you doing that?

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Raimundas says:
March 24, 2021 at 8:18 am

Yes, i do. in my case:

username= access token

password=”” #not used

broker=my Thingsboard IP address

topic=v1/devices/me/telemetry

In Tasmota log :

11:55:08 MQT: Attempting connection…

11:55:08 MQT: Connected

I uderstad that Tasmota is conected with Thingsboard, but i didn’t see

telemetry…

In Your sample i see:

publish v1/devices/me/telemetry data out = {“…

in my log:

12:00:16 MQT: v1/devices/me/telemetry/SENSOR = {“Time”:”2021-03-

19T12:00:16″,”AM2301″….

how to change “/SENSOR ” to “data out” ?

steve says:
March 24, 2021 at 9:22 am

Use the ask steve page and and me you login details and I will take a look.

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/ask-steve/

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January 19, 2021 at 6:50 am

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steve says:
January 19, 2021 at 11:10 am

Hi

You need to take a look at the other dashboard videos that I’ve don on you tube

https://youtu.be/e70ta8jI_nM

https://youtu.be/Gu0Vq2kVNzw

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Jil says:
January 1, 2021 at 2:42 pm

Hi. I am new on Thingsboard as COMMUNITY EDITION. I added device as gateway type in

Thingsboard.

This device has relation to any other device. How to i publish telemetry data on it with help
of mqtt. please share script or coding file on it. Please sir help me.

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steve says:
January 2, 2021 at 1:56 pm

I’ve put a direct link to the script at the bottom of the tutorial

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Deepthi says:
December 14, 2020 at 11:17 pm

Hi, how can I subscribe to a message?

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steve says:
December 15, 2020 at 1:25 pm

You cannot use a standard subscribe to thingsboard mqtt

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Xianfeng Ye says:
August 20, 2020 at 7:18 am

Hi Steve,
In thingsboard-ce, how does it work as a mqtt broker? There are something in the source
code of the thingsboard-3.1.0:

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Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Xianfeng Ye

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steve says:
August 20, 2020 at 9:50 am

Hi

Thingsboard supports MQTT as an end point but as far as I know it doesn’t work as a
conventional broker.

Rgds

Steve

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Timber says:
June 3, 2020 at 2:36 pm

Hi Steve,
First of all thanks a lot for all of your tutorials, are very useful.

I need to make a dashboard to monitor clients (online/offline), quantity of topics opens,

packets send and this type of stadistics, are there a way to make this? I think that i cant
create it in ThingsBoard because is an app for control or monitor devices, but not for
monitor the broker and all of this clients. My clients have his unique device id and i cant
change for the token of the ThingBoard app. I need a dashboard similar to the HiveMQ
dashboard but for mosquitto.

http://www.mqtt-dashboard.com/

Thanks in advance.

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steve says:
June 3, 2020 at 2:54 pm

Hi

Did you see the one I created in node-red on the mqtt-tools page

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mqtt-tools/

The flow is there to download

Rgds

Steve

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to subscribe and using this to give comands from dashboard to client.

But One of my tool is not supporting special charachter in topic name as “+” or “#”.

Can I use some other topic name for commnad from dashboard

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steve says:
December 18, 2019 at 8:48 pm

what tool are you using? you can use the exact topic name but in this case I don’t think
you will know it.

rgds

steve

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TBUser says:
December 20, 2019 at 6:19 am

I am using Wise.It is not allowing me to use Topic name

“v1/devices/me/rpc/request/+”.So I am not able to send the commands.

Can I use “v1/devices/me/attributes” as subscribe .to send command to client from

TB.

From dashboard I want to send commands to client.

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steve says:
December 20, 2019 at 3:37 pm

Ok

I found the wise devices

If you look at the python script and dashboard I sent via email you will see that
commands are send from thingsboard like this

topic v1/devices/me/rpc/request/154 message=

{“method”:”settemp”,”params”:”45.88″}

the number 154 is assigned by thingsboard so you can’t subscribe to it directly.

The next command sent by thingsboard might look like this

topic v1/devices/me/rpc/request/157 mesage

{“method”:”settemp”,”params”:”33.78″}

So you need to be able to use a wildcard otherwise it looks like it won’t work with
thingsboard

I would see if you can get an answer from wise.

rgds

steve

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Hello,

First of all, Thank you for your great tutorial.

I’m using ThingsBoard IoT Gateway. I want to send data from ThingsBoard server to the
devices that are connected via gateway but, I couldn’t use the RPC capability of
ThingsBoard. I don’t know how to set a topic for widgets in Dashboard. Do you have any
idea about this?

Regards,

Anita

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steve says:
December 1, 2019 at 8:36 pm

Hi

I tried about 6 months ago and couldn’t get rpc working as I thought it should I will try
again this week and let you know if I have any joy.

rgds

steve

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Anita says:
December 2, 2019 at 3:27 pm

Thank you so much. It would be a great help to me.

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steve says:
December 2, 2019 at 7:40 pm

Hi

Think I’ve got it working here is the public dashboard

http://demo.thingsboard.io/dashboards/5391b680-6009-11e7-ab61-
c7f326cba909

When you change the temperature it sends a rpc command to a python client
and the client send the temperature back as telemetry data to the temperature
display.

It might not work for you but I will try to get the Python script running all night
so you can try it.

Rgds

Steve

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Hi,

Did you find any solution?

just by working with tb-gateway,I cannot see that the gateway gets the rpc or
not… and also on the device I don’t know where to subscribe.

steve says:
December 11, 2019 at 9:25 am

Hi

Yes and I thought I had emailed you but didn’t find it. I will email you my
Python script and dashboard link later today.

The solution is that you use rpc to make the request from thingsboard to the
client and send the reply as telemetry data.

rgds

steve

Anita says:
December 1, 2019 at 8:59 am

Hello,

First of all, Thank you for your great tutorial.

I have two questions;

1- I’m using ThingsBoard IoT Gateway. I want to send data from ThingsBoard server to the
devices that are connected via gateway but, I couldn’t use the RPC capability of
ThingsBoard. I don’t know how to set a topic for widgets in Dashboard. Do you have any
idea about this?

2- By using mosquitto_sub I can subscribe to ThingsBoard MQTT Broker by my device’s

TOKEN with this command: mosquitto_sub -h ${THINGSBOARD_IP} -p 1883 -t
v1/devices/me/rpc/request/+ -u ${DEVICE_TOKEN}

and by this, I can get the RPC messages from server.

but with a program written in Python and using paho-mqtt I couldn’t. The code is:

client = mqtt.Client(“P1”) #create new instance

client.on_message=on_message #attach function to callback

client.username_pw_set(username=TOKEN,password=None)

client.connect(broker_address,1883) #connect to broker

while client.loop() == 0:

client.subscribe(“v1/devices/me/rpc/request/+”)

client.loop_forever() #stop the loop

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Esam says:
November 6, 2019 at 1:55 am

Hi Steve,

I try to subscribe to the knob control but it stay offline and I dont seem to get any rpc
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steve says:
November 7, 2019 at 6:13 pm

What are you using to access thingsboard? Python? Node-red? etc

rgds

Steve

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Jatin Desai says:

September 21, 2019 at 8:50 pm

Thanks for a great software and tutorial. I have played around with examples and seem to
work fine. Now I am trying to make it work with my sensors using Vera MQTT plug-in to
connect devices to actual sensors. However, the plug-in has limitations in the sense, it only
allows me to specify one username/password and wants to send MQTT status of all
sensors using the same credentials. It also doesn’t use v1/devices/me/telemetry as a
topic. Here is what an update for a sensor looks like:

Topic: Vera/Events/Patio Manual VSW <— The name of device is here

Message payload:

{ "ServiceId": "urn:upnp-org:serviceId:SwitchPower1", "DeviceId": 125, "OldStatus": 0,

"DeviceName": "Patio Manual VSW", "Time": 1568768623, "RoomName": "Patio", "Status":

1,

"Variable": "Status", "RoomId": 5, "DeviceType": "urn:schemas-upnp-

org:device:BinaryLight:1" }

Is there any way to map these messages into thingsboard telemetry data and also get
around to having only one username/password for all devices?

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steve says:
September 22, 2019 at 10:45 am

Hi

The only way I can think of is to use a republisher which subscribes to the topics
published by vera and republishes them in a format accepted by thingsboard.

I talk about it here

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/understanding-mqtt-topics/

I also create a video and tutorial on doing it for http to mqtt with python and the code
is included here

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/republish-html-data-over-mqtt-flight-arrivals/

Other than that you would need to write you own plugin or modify the existing on to do
what you want

Rgds

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Jatin Desai says:

September 22, 2019 at 2:20 pm

Thanks – upon further reading, the Thingsboard IoT gateway seems like it is meant
for this type of situation.

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steve says:
September 22, 2019 at 3:35 pm

I agree with you there. I would recommend you take a look at node-red it is far
more versatile.

https://stevesnoderedguide.com/

rgds

Steve

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Dino says:
August 16, 2019 at 7:59 am

Hi,

I have installed ThingsBoard CE to run MQTT.

When I sent data like this:

mosquitto_pub -h host -p 1883 -u “Token” -t v1/devices/me/telemetry -m “{“data”:25}”

I could get the data from the TB dashboard well.

But I could’t get the data from the other computer at same time like I use this

mosquitto_sub -h host -t v1/devices/me/telemetry -u “Token”

And, How Could I get the history data from the TB’s device.

Best Regards,

Dino

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steve says:
August 16, 2019 at 8:31 am

You cannot subscribe to the thingsboard MQTT broker like you would to a normal
broker. You should be able to get the historical data using their http API
https://thingsboard.io/docs/user-guide/telemetry/

rgds

steve

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Hello, I am from Ecuador, I am working on my thesis, I would like to use the things board
platform to send a signal to the gpio port to open and close a door, I have read and found
tutorials that manage all the gpio ports, I really can’t understand them , I would like you
to help me with a basic example to start from there. I am working with python and mqtt.
Show data in the telemetry topic I already did. But I wish I could control a gpio port, could
you help me with an example. I will be very grateful.

I have seen some videos on YouTube but I don’t understand very well, since I don’t get
much English.

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steve says:
August 3, 2019 at 4:29 pm

Hi

Have you seen these tutorials from thingsboard

https://thingsboard.io/docs/samples/esp8266/gpio/

https://thingsboard.io/docs/samples/raspberry/gpio/

Rgds

Steve

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Thangz says:
July 26, 2019 at 10:45 am

Is there any much simpler way to connect to mosquitto broker & subscribe to topics from
Thingsboard CE, so that whenever a message published in broker reaches the
thingsboard as well without the frequent subscription or without the need for access
token?

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steve says:
July 26, 2019 at 2:13 pm

Thingsboard works with access tokens so I don’t believe there is

Rgds

Steve

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July 17, 2019 at 11:31 am

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I have 100 tags data to send ,which I want to send on 4 different topics. Can I configure
topic in Thingsboard PE like

“v1/device1/me/telemetry”

“v1/device2/me/telemetry”

“v1/device3/me/telemetry”

“v1/device4/me/telemetry”

I have checked the topics name configuration online

I want to send Mqtt data on multiple topics.So that I can fasten my publishing without any
data leakage.

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steve says:
July 17, 2019 at 1:10 pm

In Thingsboard you use the same topic. It is the device id that changes. So you will need
to create multiple devices and not multiple topics.

Does that make sense?

Rgds

Steve

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TBUser says:
July 18, 2019 at 5:42 am

Thanks a lot , Steve.So I need to send data on same topic to difent device(diffrent
credentials).I hope I am getting it correct..

I have one more query ,

I am trying to send data of around 500 tags (changing data per second) from Paho
MQTT to Cloud. Initially all data is received, but after some time it starts losing
samples.

Kindly help.

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steve says:
July 18, 2019 at 2:32 pm

I would guess that you are overloading the receiver. Try starting with 100 tags
and it that works go to 200 until you find the point at which you lose messages
and that will confirm that the receiver is being overwhelmed or throttled.

Rgds

Steve

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Hi Thanx a lot Steve.

Its working fine with 200 tags.But I want it for 500 tags which getting chaned
at per second.(500 changes /second)

But after that, I start losing data. If you could help me with this.

TBUser says:
July 18, 2019 at 10:00 am

I have one more query regarding ThingsBoard PE.

What is the rate limit to be accepted by TB server persecond i.e. deafult value
changes per second limit in TB PE.

Is it 300:1,3000:60

means no more then 300 updates per second and no more then 3000 updates per
minute.

TB_SERVER_WS_TENANT_RATE_LIMITS_MAX_UPDATES_PER_SESSION

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steve says:
July 18, 2019 at 2:42 pm

Hi

I just looked at their docs and the limits seem to refer to websockets and not
mqtt. It is very likely similar for mqtt but you will need to test.

Rgds

Steve

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TBUser says:
July 19, 2019 at 6:27 am

I have found TB has given some tet results.But I am wondring from where I
can see those trends.

https://thingsboard.io/docs/reference/performance/

given on TB site.

TBUser says:
July 19, 2019 at 11:06 am

Hey Can I send data like this to different devices –

objClient.client.username_pw_set(“NewMQTT”,””)

objClient.client.publish(“v1/devices/me/telemetry”, mqttmessage1 , qos=2)

time.sleep(1)

objClient.client.username_pw_set(“TestTopic”,””)

objClient.client.publish(“v1/devices/me/telemetry”, mqttmessage2 , qos= 2)

I tried but it is updating in “NewMQTT” only.

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July 19, 2019 at 12:12 pm

Hi

You should be able to. Are you overwriting your initial client object?

I would go for qos of 0 not 2 unless you really must as qos of 2 create 4 times as
many messages.

In addition I would look at only sending change data.

I find with IOT devices like sensors most don’t change from one sample period to
the next so why waste network and storage on transmitting and storing the
same data.

Take a look at the data logging tutorial.

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/logging-mqtt-sensor-data/

Rgds

Steve

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TBUser says:
July 22, 2019 at 4:27 am

Hi Thanks for the reply Steve.

Here I am using analog sensors.so getting value changes frequently.

For e.g. Voltage or Current.

steve says:
July 22, 2019 at 3:01 pm

Then look at changing the sample frequency to reduce the data.

rgds

steve

TBUser says:
July 22, 2019 at 9:46 am

One more thing to be added I will connect to broker only once.

But In that I want to change diferent username.

steve says:
July 22, 2019 at 3:00 pm

Hi

You will need to disconnect and reconnect to do this

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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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steve says:
June 14, 2019 at 4:49 pm

If you go to the downloads page and scroll down to the scripts used in video you will
find the scripts there under Creating an mqtt dashboard in thingsboard

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/downloads/

Let me know if you still have problems

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Brice Tiki Abane says:

February 19, 2019 at 2:03 pm

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this very helpful and clear tutorial. This IOT platform seems really
appropriated for what I intend to do. However, I want to use a Pycom device (don’t know if
you’ve heard about it) to communicate with Thingsboard through MQTT. I found the
following module on Github
(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/micropython/micropython-
lib/master/umqtt.simple/umqtt/simple.py) which seemed quite OK. However, I am still
confused with all the parameters required, to create a client object with the _init_ function
and how to adapt it with the credentials provided by one of the devices I created on
Thingsboard. Or maybe, could you please provide me with the module/library and the
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steve says:
February 19, 2019 at 3:22 pm

From looking at the code all you need is the client name and broker name/address.
What credentials are you referring to?

On things board each device as an ID which you use for the username password is
blank.

use the form

client =(name,server,username=xxx)

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Rodrigo says:
September 16, 2018 at 11:19 pm

Hi Steve, thank you for this tutorial, it is very good.

I have some experience with Thingboard, but I have a problem when I want to set up
values from the dashboard with a widget, I use Knob Control from Control Widgets but it
is not very useful, because it sends many values before you reach the value that you want.

Do you have any idea how can I do ?

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steve says:
September 17, 2018 at 1:47 pm

I know what you mean. There is currently no way that I can see of preventing this
unless you change the widget code. I haven’t tried doing that but hopefully will one day.

You could catch it on the receive side but it depends on what you are sending it to.

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