CREATING A DATACAKE CONNECTION

Collecting Expected Information

Parameters required

Field	Description
Access Token	Generated in your Datacake settings.

Generate Access Token

Access Token is a key that will offer you the possibility to authenticate you.

1. To get it, you must first go to your profile settings.

2. Then go to API section, and copy your Access Token

Creating a Connection With API

The creation of a connection establishes a unidirectional messaging transport link to the cloud provider.

To do this, you need to use the Connections group resource:

• POST/connections to create a new Connection instance
• PUT/connections to update a Connection instance
• DELETE/connections to delete a Connection instance

Note

We follow the REST-full API pattern, when updating configuration properties for a connection resource. Thus, you must also provide the whole configuration again.

Example for creation of a new connection instance :

POST /connections
{
  "name":"Actility To Datacake",
  "connectorId":"actility-http-iot",
  "configuration": {
      "destinationURL":"https://api.datacake.co/integrations/lorawan/actility",
      "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Token {YOUR-ACCESS-TOKEN}"
      }
  },
  "brand":"DATACAKE"
}

The following table lists the properties applicable to a connection instance.

Field	Description
connectorId	Must be set to actility-http-iot for Datacake platform.
configuration/headers/accessToken	Must be replaced by "Token " followed by your Access Token created in your datacake account.
brand	Must be set to DATACAKE.

Important note

All properties are not present in this example. You can check the rest of these properties in the common parameters section.

Creating a Connection With UI

1. Click Connections -> Create -> ThingPark X IoT Flow

2. Then, a new page will open. Select the connection type: Datacake.

3. Fill in the form as in the example below and click on Create.

Note

Parameters marked with * are mandatory.

4. A notification appears on the upper right side of your screen to confirm that the application has been created.

5. After creating the application, you will be redirected to the connection details.

Limitations

Limitations depends on Account Plan you own.

Displaying information to know if it worked

1. Connect to your Datacake account.

2. Press the + Add Device button.

3. Choose LoRaWAN, and select New Product from template (You can create a New product if your device model doesn't appear, refer to this link to get more informations)

4. Select your device in the Device Template list bellow. And chose Actility for Network Server.

5. Fill in the DEVEUI and NAME fields. Then, go Next and chose your Plan.

6. After waiting a few minutes, you'll be able to see a dashboard for you device by clicking on it in your device list.

Troubleshooting

As for now, there are no detected bugs.

• Datacake documentation: https://docs.datacake.de/