Note: most of the instructions below relate to Board 4, as the procedure seems to remain the same for Board 6. We will be returning to Board 6 in the section ‘Webhook Integration on TTN’.
Datacake (https://datacake.co/) is a web based, cloud hosted IOT platform.
To start your integration, click on the big purple ‘Give Datacake a try’ button (it now says ‘First 5 devices for FREE). Next page, click on the big purple ‘Sign up now for free’ button.
And you should arrive here.
When you have completed the form, click ‘Create Account’ to be taken to the ‘Devices’ page.
On the devices page, you will see that I already have some devices set up.
This is where we add a device. That would be your Arduino MKR WAN board. I have already added two boards. The next one will be Board 4 (Board 1 is no longer working).
To add your device, click the blue ‘Add Device’ button. You should see a page like this.
Click in the ‘New Product’ box. Product Name is whatever you want to call your device. I’ve called mine Board 4.
It prompts us that “You will have to create the device definition (fields, dashboard) and provide the payload decoder in the device's configuration.” We will be doing all that in the coming pages.
Click ‘Next’ and you will be taken to this page.
Your device is already connected to The Things Stack, so choose the ‘The Things Stack V3’ option. Click ‘Next’.
This is where you link your Datacake account with your The Things Network account.
Return to your TTN account and locate your device EUI. You can find it on this page.
Copy your EUI by clicking on the copy icon (this is now called ‘End device ID’).
Datacake account and paste this into the Device EUI box. Type the name of your board into the ‘Name’ box.
Then click ‘Next’.
On this page you can choose a plan. If you are only adding one device, you can use the free plan. Click ‘Add 1 device’.
Back on your ‘Devices’ page, you should now see the added board.
For new Arduino boards, we need to set up webhook integration in TTN to forward data to Datacake.
Return to your TTN webpage and select your board, in this case Board 6. Click on ‘Integrations’, then select ‘Webhooks’ from the dropdown.
You should see this page. Click on the blue ‘Add webhook’ button.
Scroll down until you see the ‘Datacake’ template.
Click on the Datacake template to see this page.
We need to create the API token. Return to your Datacake webpage, then go to ‘Members’ then ‘API Users’.
Here you can see that some API tokens have already been created.
Now click ‘Add API User’. You should see this popup window.
Enter a name for your API User. I have called mine ‘board 6 token’. Scroll down until you see the button ‘Add permission for all Devices in Workspace’, and click on it. You will then see some more options.
Of these, just tick the box for ‘Can record measurements’. When done, click the blue ‘Save’ button.
You should now see your new token appear in the Members list.
Click on the blue ‘Copy’ button to copy the new API token to your clipboard.
Now return to your TTN webpage.
Paste the copied token into the token field, and fill in a name for your webhook ID. This must contain only lowercase letters, numbers and dashes (-). I’ve called mine ‘board-6-webhook’.
Then click the blue ‘Create Datacake webhook’ button. You should then see this:
In this screen grab, you will see in the second column from the right that the ‘STATUS’ is given as ‘Pending’. You my have to wait a few moments before the status changes to ‘Healthy’.
Now that we have created a webhook, we now need to configure your Datacake account to receive and display the data from TTN.. Click here for the next steps.
