For demo purposes and to be able to check if the messages are coming from the IoT cloud without looking at the screen all the time I created super simple Node-RED flow that receives messages from IBM’s IoT cloud and log them in the debug tab of the Node-RED UI and in parallel it parses JSON format of the messages to obtain value of the „temp“ property which is then passed to OS X say command.
It can be easily modified to pick another property value just by modifying „JSON and parse“ node.
Today we will add a simple user interface to our Bluemix/Node-RED/MongoDB application. We could do it in a form of a Ruby in Rails app or use another platform. But let’s assume that we want to have something up and running really fast – just for PoC purposes and as a rough prototype. That’s why I am going to use RapidApps for this purpose. Pokračování textu Home automation as a weekend project using IBM’s Clouds – part 3
Today we will connect the MQTT bus that is core part of IoT Cloud to the MongoDB using Node-RED flow.
The goal is to have the values – that are sent by our simulated device – stored in our database to be able to display them to an user.
We need to add MongoDB to our Bluemix application. Pokračování textu Home automation as a weekend project using IBM’s Clouds – part 2
I decided to make myself familiar with the IBM’s cloud services by creating a home automation system based on these services:
Before implementing such a system I started by testing components that I plan to use.
Pokračování textu Home automation as a weekend project using IBM’s clouds – part 1