Hello ubidots,
we are iotbits an startup company on the Iot world that is trying to understand your platform and see if it will work for our customers.
I have paid subscription that is registered under another email.
Our device is mod-bus master that collect’s data from industrial VFD, each vfd has hundreds of variables, but we only read the most important ones and send all them using MQTT to “cloud” or alternative local platforms for data visualization and analysis (Node-red, Grafana).
Each device send 3 different data topics, Slaves data & alarms, and it also send Iot device status.
See below how our json data looks like:
See below how our json status looks like,
We know that ubidots Mqtt publish format must be in the form of
/v1.6/devices/{LABEL_DEVICE} , this means that we can’t use our structure of 3 x mqtt topics per devices I am right?
If the answer to the previous question is yes I would like to hear your advice the best way to blend the variable pairs of our current status topic to the data topic.
In our status topics we have some variables that are not really important so we can get rid of those, but there are other variables that actually are strings and that is problem that we had with ubidot, we tried to send variable holding strings via MQTT, but ubidots do not show them .
for example I have tested the following json object ( took from your guides)
{“temperature”: {“value”:10, “timestamp”: 1464661369000, “context”:{“lat”:-6.2, “lng”:75.4, “my-key”:“hello there”}}, “humidity”: 50}
“my-key” --> hello there is not recognized by ubidots.
Please notice that our status object has several variables that hold strings.
for example
hostame :“hostname”
ssid:“myssid”
mac:“xxxxxxxxxxx”
ip:192.168…"
these variables holding strings are very important for us to be available in the dashboards.
Summarizing we need to know how we have to build the json object with strings pair in order to ubidos can show up them.
Thanks
