node-red-contrib-thinger

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.

Getting Started

Documentation regarding the module and nodes can be found here.

Prerequisites

Cloud

Have a valid Thinger.io cloud instance with capacity to install a new plugin.

Local

Have a local instance of Node-RED with the following characteristics:

• Node.js - v16.0 or newer
• Node-RED - v2.0.0 or newer

Installation

Cloud

To install the plugin on the Thinger.io instance follow the instructions from the documentation.

Local

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.

Nodes

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).

License

The class is licensed under the MIT License:

Copyright © Thinger.io

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