Migrating from Node-RED / Blynk to Kotori, InfluxDB and Grafana

[christopheblain]

New ESP32-based PCB with LoRa support from Christophe

Dear Christophe, Nice to hear. Grafana is really the best thing which could have happened to us while starting to build up our infrastructure. There are many ways you can approach that. The most basic way would be to forward your measurements directly into a timeseries database like InfluxDB using a respective data flow within your current Node-RED setup. There are probably many examples around the net outlining this. However, no matter if you want to run the whole system on your own premis…

Dear Andreas,

I’m starting to look at how to migrate my data to Grafana. I have no experience on Grafana, I currently use TTN (the things network ) in lora and I recover my data in Node Red and then to blynk. I saw that I had to either use InfluxDB or MQTT. Do you have any links that could explain to me how to configure all this? and also how Grafana works. I found things on internet but not exactly what I would like .
Thanks for your help

christophe

[Andreas]

Dear Christophe,

thanks for signaling interest in our telemetry- and backend-infrastructure. We will be happy to help you on board, this discussion might also help others to sort out the details about how to run their own data acquisition software stack.

Apart from running the whole machinery on own premises, we would also like to encourage you to submit data to our collective platform on swarm.hiveeyes.org, but this decision is totally up to you! Everything we are doing here is made of open source components.

@christopheblain

I currently use TTN (The Things Network).

@Thias and @clemens both have quite some knowledge about our TTN-integration, so I am humbly diverting questions about respective details to them.

Cheers,
Andreas.

[clemens]

Dear Christophe,

thanks for asking! Regarding the TTN-integration, you may want to have a look at the documentation at

Datenweiterleitung via TTN / LoRa zu Hiveeyes, BOB und BEEP einrichten

Einleitung Das Ganze geht momentan nur mit der Hiveeyes Terkin Datalogger-Software in Verbindung mit der CayenneLPP Encodierung der Daten. Der Datenfluss ist dann dieser NODE -> TTN -> PUTSREQ Endpoint -> HIVEEYES/BOB/BEEP Die Konfiguration des Terkin-Datenlogger wird unter Konfiguration des Terkin-Datenloggers für LoRaWAN/TTN beschrieben. Putsreq Dieser Service dient dazu, das Datenpaket von TTN so umzuschreiben, dass es von den Datenaquise-Services (DAQ) korrekt angenommen und verarbeitet w…

So in case you have a running pipeline from your node to TTN you should be able to activate a second HTTP integration at the TTN console and send Data to putsreq and then to swarm.hiveeyes.org.

We have used CayenneLPP for encoding our data so in case you have transmitted data in an other way it may need further adjustments.

With kind regards,
Clemens.

[christopheblain]

Many thanks Clemens and Andreas. I saw this post but the translation icon said: This post is too long to be translated by the translator :(.
I will try slowly to undersand how it’s work in TTN with HTTP.

First question I Have is: I created an account in Grafana ( done) but How I can create an account in https://swarm.hiveeyes.org/ ?
I think I will have a lots of question in future
Thanks for your support
christophe

[Andreas]

Dear Christophe,

I’ve put together some links to get you started. While not everything will match your use-case, it might get you some insights into the system and the variety of possibilities to acquire data from different kinds of sensor nodes using different protocols and telemetry scenarios.

• Zugangsdaten anfragen und Account erstellen
• Meßdaten an die Hiveeyes Plattform übermitteln
• Daten per MQTT und Python ans Backend auf swarm.hiveeyes.org übertragen
• Datenweiterleitung via TTN / LoRa zu Hiveeyes, BOB und BEEP einrichten

@christopheblain

I saw this post but the translation icon said: This post is too long to be translated by the translator :(.

The content within the last topic has been split up to make the translator work again.

@christopheblain

How I can create an account on https://swarm.hiveeyes.org/?

We’ve just sent you an invite to this Grafana instance.

@christopheblain

I think I will have a lots of question in future.

Sure, just go ahead and don’t hesitate to ask.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

P.S.: In order to run the whole backend system on your own premises, you might want to have a look at the respective documentation of Kotori at https://getkotori.org/docs/setup/debian.html. We’ve tried hard to make it as easy as possible by providing appropriate software packages from our repository, even for Raspberry Pi and other SBC systems. Some people from our community have already been doing this successfully, see Kotori Setup auf Raspbian Buster – thanks again for writing about it, @techanic!

[christopheblain]

Many thanks Adreas, I will try to understand and increase my knowledge on swarn.hiveeyes.
Thanks again for your support and I will come back if I have any questions
christophe