How to connect Temco Tstat10 to ThingsBoard?

Don’t forget to expose 47808 port in the docker compose file. Also, add device host to the Alternative responses address array in the device advanced configuration section.

• Open the ThingsBoard in your browser and log in. Go to “Entities” > “Gateways” tab in the sidebar and click on “+” button. Fill in “Name” and “Device profile” fields and click “Create” button;

• Start gateway using launch command;

• Gateway created. Click on “Connectors configuration” button in the sidebar menu;

• Click on “+” button to add a new connector;

• Select “BACnet” connector type, fill in the “Name” field and click “Add” button;

• Connector created;

• In the created connector go to “Devices” tab and delete default device;

• Click on “Add device” button;

• Fill in the “Host” and “Port” fields (you can find this information in the T3000 software). Fill in the “Device name” and “Device profile name” with “Temco Tstat10” and “default” respectively. Poll period set to 3000 ms (you can change it according to your purpose);

• Click on “Time series pencil” icon;

• In the opened window click on “Add time series” button;

• Fill in the “Key” field with “sensor_temperature”, “Object ID” with “Analog Input” and “1”. Click “Add time series” button;

• Fill in the “Key” field with “sensor_humidity”, “Object ID” with “Analog Input” and “2”;

• Fill in the “Key” field with “controller_temperature”, “Object ID” with “Analog Input” and “9”. Click “Apply” button;

• Click “Add” button;

• Device added.

• Open the ThingsBoard in your browser and log in. Go to “Entities” > “Gateways” tab in the sidebar and click on “+” button. Fill in “Name” and “Device profile” fields and click “Create” button;

• Start gateway using launch command;

• Gateway created. Click on “Connectors configuration” button in the sidebar menu;

• Click on “+” button to add a new connector;

• Select “BACnet” connector type, fill in the “Name” field, disable filling configuration with default values and click “Add” button;

• In the created connector go to “Advanced” section and paste the below json configuration. Replace host and port configuration parameter values with the device host and port. Also, replace “DEVICE_HOST” in “altResponsesAddresses” with device host. Click on “Save” button.

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{
  "application": {
    "host": "0.0.0.0",
    "port": "47808",
    "objectName": "TB_gateway",
    "objectIdentifier": 599,
    "maxApduLengthAccepted": 1476,
    "segmentationSupported": "segmentedBoth",
    "vendorIdentifier": 15
  },
  "devices": [
    {
      "altResponsesAddresses": ["DEVICE_HOST"],
      "host": "DEVICE_HOST",
      "port": 47808,
      "deviceInfo": {
        "deviceNameExpression": "Temco Tstat10",
        "deviceNameExpressionSource": "constant",
        "deviceProfileExpressionSource": "constant",
        "deviceProfileExpression": "default"
      },
      "pollPeriod": 3000,
      "timeseries": [
        {
          "objectType": "analogInput",
          "objectId": "1",
          "key": "sensor_temperature",
          "propertyId": "presentValue"
        },
        {
          "objectType": "analogInput",
          "objectId": "2",
          "key": "humidity",
          "propertyId": "presentValue"
        },
        {
          "key": "controller_temperature",
          "objectType": "analogInput",
          "objectId": "9",
          "propertyId": "presentValue"
        }
      ],
      "attributes": [],
      "attributeUpdates": [],
      "serverSideRpc": []
    }
  ]
}

Import dashboard

Download Check Device Data Dashboard and import.

You are able to import a dashboard in JSON format. To import a dashboard, you should go to the Dashboard group and click on the “+” button in the upper right corner of the page and choose “Import dashboard”. The dashboard import window should pop up, and you will be prompted to upload the JSON file and click “Import”.

After importing, we should choose an entity alias for our device.
To do this - we need to press the pen icon and select entity aliases, select alias “My device” and open it for editing by pressing the pen icon.
Then, choose a created device from dropdown list and save entity alias. Now, you should be able to see the data from the device.

If you did everything right, you have to see the following dashboard:

Create new dashboard

We will create a dashboard and add the most popular widgets. See the instructions below.

• Open the Dashboards page. Click on the “+” icon in the top right corner. Select “Create new dashboard”;

• Input dashboard name. For example, “My New Dashboard”. Click “Add” to add the dashboard;

• Your dashboard should be listed first since the table sorts dashboards using the creation time by default. Click on the “Open dashboard” icon.

Add Entity Alias

Alias is a reference to a single entity or group of entities that are used in the widgets. An alias may be static or dynamic. We will use the “Single entity” alias, referring to a single entity. In this case, “Temco Tstat10”. It is possible to configure an alias that references multiple devices. For example, devices of a certain type or related to a certain asset. You may learn more about different aliases here.

• Enter edit mode. Click on the pencil button in the bottom right corner;

• Click the “Entity Aliases” icon in the top right part of the screen. You will see an empty list of Entity aliases;

• Click “Add alias”;

• Enter an alias name. Choose “Single entity” as the Filter type, select “Device” for Type, and begin typing “My New” to trigger autocomplete suggestions;

• Click “Add” and then “Save”;

• Finally, click “Apply changes” in the dashboard editor to save the changes. Then you should enter edit mode again.

To add the new widget, we need to select it from the widget library. The widgets are grouped into widget bundles. Each widget has a data source. It is how the widget “knows” what data to display.