Template:Networking rut cloud of things

Telekom Cloud of Things is now compatible with Teltonika RUT routers.

Description

The Cloud of Things is cloud platform for the Internet of Things. It allows you to remotely monitor, manage and control your connected devices and machines – plug-and-play, without extensive installation.

Summary

This example application streams some information from the router device. Once it is enabled you should be able to the following things in Cloud of Things Cockpit the following information from your router:

Device Model, Revision and Serial Number

Mobile Cell ID, ICCID, IMEI, Connection Type, Operator, Signal Strength

WAN Type and IP

Mobile and WAN information are sent from “stream” Lua script, while Device information - from stream application. This information (except Device) is being sent to the main Cumulocity server continuously: at 10 seconds interval.

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Creating an account

First of all, you need to create an account. After registration, you will receive free 60 days Cloud of Things trial. Registration form can be found here: https://support.ram.m2m.telekom.com/apps/demotenant/index.html#/ . Below you can see registration form:

Note: The value in URL field will be your Cloud of Things server address. (example.example.example.telekom.com)??????????????????

After successful registration you will receive an email with your account details (URL, username, password) and after logging in, you will be redirected to Cloud of Things Cockpit portal, see below:

Preparing firmware with example application

First, you need to obtain GPL from https://teltonika-networks.com/gpl. Now you need to run “make menuconfig” command inside GPL folder.

You need to add example application so it can be built. Navigate to “Network” section and select “cmstreamapp” with spacebar key. It will show “<*>” once application is added, see below:

Now do the same with “Luci” section, “Applications → luci-app-iot”. This will enable to configure example package from router control panel, see below for example:

Everything should be ready and you can exit. Now run “make” command and firmware will appear in “bin/ar71xx/tltFws” directory. You can flash “GPL_…._WEBUI.bin” file.

Configuring and launching example application

After you successfully built and flashed firmware, in „Services“ tab there should be an option called „IoT Platforms“.

Only single field is required, which is Server Address. This is the same URL of Cumulocity Cockpit website. In this example, it is myservername.cumulocity.com.

Explanation of other options:

Use SSL/TLS – connection will use TLS, however, you need to have a signed SSL certificate, otherwise application would not be able to connect to the Cumulocity server.

Reset Auth – once device has been removed from the Cumulocity Device Management, you will need to reset authentication in order to re-register device.

Also click „Enable“ to enable example application. See below:

Now click „Save“ and if everything is correct – example application will successfully connect to the Cumulocity server.

Now you need to register device on Device Management in Cumulocity Cockpit.

Device registration is done by writing down device's serial number. In order to obtain your device's serial number, look at the backplate of it or navigate to your device's control panel and then to „Status → Device“ page:

In this case, serial number is 09516845.

Now log into your Cumulocity Cockpit portal, in this example URL is https://myservername.cumulocity.com.

Go to the Device Management page:

Then navigate to Registration page:

Click „Register device“:

Click „General device registration“:

Write device’s serial number in „Device ID“ field and click „Next“:

As shown below, registration is successful:

Click „Finish“ to close this pop-up. Now if everything is correct, a new device widget should show up with a status „PENDING ACCEPTANCE“:

Click „Accept“ button to accept this device.

Now navigate to „All devices“ page:

Here you should be able to see list of all registered devices:

Click on „TLT-RUT955 Router“ name to get into information page:

Notice „Device Data“ widget, it contains information from the router device. By navigating to „Control“ tab, you can restart device by clicking „More → Restart Device“:

You can go back to Cumulocity Cockpit page the same way you entered Device managemant page:

Then navigate to „Home“ page:

And then click „Add widget“:

Select „Asset properties“ widget and type title, then select „TLT-RUT955 Router“ in „Target Assets or Devices“:

To add more information into widget, click „Add property“ and click on „Show“ to add that property.

In example application, these properties are used:

Hardware – Model, Revision, Serial Number

Mobile – Cell ID, Connection Type, Current Operator, ICCID, IMEI and Signal

WAN – IP and Wan Type

Total properties:

Then click „Save“ and you should be able to see widget with properties you have set:

Explanation of example application

There are two steps when adding new properties:

1. Writing template

2. Writing lua script which will stream information.

By default, template location inside router is „/usr/lib/lua/cm/srtemplate.txt“. It contains such content:

  rut955-v0.01

  10,100,GET,/identity/externalIds/SerialNumber/%%,,application/json,%%,STRING,

  10,101,POST,/inventory/managedObjects,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING,"{""name"":""%%"",""c8y_IsDevice"":{},""com_cumulocity_model_Agent"":{}}"

  10,102,POST,/identity/globalIds/%%/externalIds,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING STRING,"{""externalId"":""%%"",""type"":""SerialNumber""}"

  10,103,PUT,/inventory/managedObjects/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING    STRING STRING,"{""name"": ""%%"", ""type"": ""%%""}"

  10,104,PUT,/inventory/managedObjects/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING    STRING STRING STRING,"{""c8y_Hardware"":   {""model"":""%%"",""revision"":""%%"",""serialNumber"":""%%""}}"

  10,105,PUT,/inventory/managedObjects/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING    STRING STRING STRING STRING STRING STRING,"{""c8y_Mobile"":   {""imei"":""%%"",""cellId"":""%%"",""iccid"":""%%"",""connType"":""%%"",""currentOperat   or"":""%%""},""signal"":""%%""}"

  10,106,PUT,/inventory/managedObjects/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,STRING    STRING STRING,"{""c8y_Network"":{""c8y_WAN"":{""ip"":""%%""}},""wanType"":""%%""}"

  10,107,PUT,/inventory/managedObjects/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,UNSIGNED STRING,"{""c8y_SupportedOperations"":[""%%""]}"

  10,108,PUT,/devicecontrol/operations/%%,application/json,application/json,%%,UNSIGNED    STRING,"{""status"":""%%""}"

  11,500,$.managedObject,,$.id
  11,501,,$.c8y_IsDevice,$.id
  11,502,,$.c8y_Restart,$.id,$.deviceId

First line contains template version. In this case it is „rut955-v0.01“.

When template is updated, version must be updated aswell, otherwise device will use non-updated template version.

The following lines contains requests starting with a number „10“ and responses - starting with a number „11“. Now explanation of request:

Type - 10

Code - 101

Method - POST

URL - /inventory/managedObjects

Content Type - application/json

Accept - application/json

Placeholder - %%

Params - STRING STRING

Template - JSON

Type – requests are identified by a number 10

Code – request code number, each request must contain unique number

Method – HTTP method of request

URL – URL that will be used in request

Content Type – it is Content-Type header field value

Accept – it is Accept header field value, mostly equal to Content Type

Placeholder - string which will be replaced in URL or Template JSON

Params – what kind of params are replaced, JSON template contains two strings

Template – JSON template which will be sent

Explanation of response:

Type - 11

Code - 502

Cond - <none>

Value 1 - $.c8y_Restart

Value 2 - $.id

Value3 - $.deviceId

Type – responses are identified by a number 11

Code – response code, each response must contain unique number

Cond – JSON path base pointing to an object or object list from which values are extracted

Value… - JSON values

Take a look for more information about templates: https://www.cumulocity.com/guides/reference/smartrest.

Now explanation of logic inside lua script. By default, example application’s lua script location is „/usr/bin/lua/cm“. Application will scan this folder for any *.lua files and load them if they contains „init“ function. Script’s „stream.lua“ content:

  -- stream.lua
  local utl = require "luci.util"
  local sys = require "luci.sys"
  local DEVICE_NAME = 'TLT-RUT955 Router'
  local DEVICE_TYPE = 'Router'

  function restart(r)
     local deviceId = r:value(2)
     c8y:send('108,'..deviceId..',SUCCESSFUL')
     sys.exec("reboot")
  end

  function init()
     srInfo('*** Stream Init ***')
     -- set device name and type
     c8y:send('103,'..c8y.ID..','..DEVICE_NAME..','..DEVICE_TYPE)
     -- set restart as supported operation
     c8y:send('107,'..c8y.ID..',c8y_Restart')
     -- set imei, cellid and iccid first time
     mobileDataStream()
     -- create timer which will stream mobile info data
     local m_timer = c8y:addTimer(10 * 1000, 'mobileDataStream')
     m_timer:start()   
     -- register restart handler
     c8y:addMsgHandler(502, 'restart')
     return 0
  end

  function mobileDataStream()
     local imei = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -i"))
     local cell = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -C"))
     local icc = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -J"))
     local type = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -t"))
     local oper = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -o"))
     local sign = utl.trim(sys.exec("gsmctl -q"))..' dBm'
     local req = '105,'..c8y.ID
     req = req..','..imei
     req = req..','..cell
     req = req..','..icc
     req = req..','..type
     req = req..','..oper
     req = req..','..sign
     -- send mobile info
     c8y:send(req)
     local wantype = utl.trim(sys.exec("uci get -q network.wan.ifname"))
     local wanip = utl.trim(sys.exec("curl -s http://whatismyip.akamai.com"))
     -- send wan info
     c8y:send('106,'..c8y.ID..','..wanip..','..wantype)
  end

Once application finds lua script, it will call „init“ function. This is where all initialization of timers and other stuff should be.

Sending information is quite simple:

  c8y:send('103,'..c8y.ID..','..DEVICE_NAME..','..DEVICE_TYPE)

By using „c8y:send“ function, first string contains request code, which was defined in the template, earlier. Then comma must appear after each value. The above line shows how we update device name and device type with our own.

For more information about Lua API, download Cumulocity C++ SDK: https://bitbucket.org/m2m/cumulocity-sdk-c/downloads and look up inside „sdk/doc/lua.html“ with a browser.

External Links

https://www.cumulocity.com/try-for-free

https://www.cumulocity.com/guides/reference/smartrest

https://bitbucket.org/m2m/cumulocity-sdk-c/downloads

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