thingsboard installation tutorial

1. Install tb-postgres

tb-postgres is a single instance of ThingsBoard and PostgreSQL database.

Pull the tb-postgres image

docker pull thingsboard/tb-postgres

Create the tb-postgres container

docker run -itd --name tb-postgres -p 9090:9090 -p 1883:1883 -p 5683:5683/udp -p 5685:5685/udp -p 5432:5432 -v ~/mytb-data:/data -v ~/mytb-logs:/var/log/thingsboard  --restart always thingsboard/tb-postgres

Configure postgres remote connection

Enter the /data/ directory of the tb-postgres container

Modify pg_hba.conf

host	all		all		0.0.0.0/0		trust

Modify postgresql.conf

listen_addresses = '*'

Use navicat to connect to the postgresql database, the database name and account password are thingsboard by default

Enter http://IP:9090 in the browser to open the tb console

Default system administrator account username: [email protected] password: sysadmin

Default tenant administrator account: Username: [email protected] Password: tenant

Log in to the tb console and create a gateway device

Copy the access token of the gateway device, which will be used by tb-gateway below.

2. Install tb-gateway

Pull the tb-gateway image

docker pull thingsboard/tb-gateway

Create tb-gateway container

docker run -itd --name tb-gateway -v ~/tb-gateway/logs:/var/log/thingsboard-gateway -v ~/tb-gateway/extensions:/var/lib/thingsboard_gateway/extensions -v ~/tb-gateway/config:/etc/thingsboard-gateway/config --restart always thingsboard/tb-gateway

Enter the /thingsboard-gateway/config directory

Modify tb_gateway.yaml

thingsboard:
  host: 192.168.1.100
  port: 1883
  remoteShell: false
  remoteConfiguration: false
  statistics:
    enable: true
    statsSendPeriodInSeconds: 3600
    configuration: statistics.json
  maxPayloadSizeBytes: 1024
  minPackSendDelayMS: 0
  checkConnectorsConfigurationInSeconds: 60
  handleDeviceRenaming: true
  checkingDeviceActivity:
    checkDeviceInactivity: false
    inactivityTimeoutSeconds: 120
    inactivityCheckPeriodSeconds: 10
  security:
    accessToken: yKyniKO5CAtX8fsWn2p6
  qos: 1

Modify the host in the configuration file to the IP of tb-postgres, and modify the accessToken to the access token copied above.

Modify mqtt.json

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