IoT & Connectivity Tips

Video Author:                     Mohammed Amine Chehaibi Original Post Date:            June 29, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 8.0 to 8.1   Description:​ In this video you will learn how to: To bind a property of an existing entity to the KEPServerEx Data Feed To create an Alert on that property and monitor it's behavior    

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin                Original Post Date:            June 14, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 8.0 & 8.1   Description: In this video we show: How to deploy the microservices via jar files How to setup ThingWorx to use these microservices for anomaly detection    

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            June 13, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 8.0   Description: This video is the third of a 3 part series walking you through how to setup ThingWatcher for Anomaly Detection. In this second video you will learn how to use the the Anomaly Mashup to visualize data received from a remote device.    

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            June 13, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 8.0   Description: This video is the second of a 3 part series walking you through how to setup ThingWatcher for Anomaly Detection. In this second video you will learn how to use the "Discover UI" from the NextGen Composer to bind simulated data coming thru KEPServer for Anomaly Detection.    

Video Author:                      Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            June 13, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 8.0   Description: This video is the first of a 3 part series walking you through how to setup ThingWatcher for Anomaly Detection. In this first video you will learn the basics of how to establish connectivity between KEPServer and the ThingWorx Platform.    

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            June 2, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 7.4 to 8.1   Description: In this video we show a simple mashup and services in order to display the ThingPredictor's real time scoring results.  

Video Author:                     Mohammed Amine Chehaibi Original Post Date:            April 25, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.x to 8.0   Description: In this video, you will learn how to: Execute a “Signals” Job Retrieve the results of the “Signals” Job Execute a “Training Model” Job Retrieve the results of the “Training Model” Job    

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            March 31, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 7.4 to 8.1   Description: This video walks you through the use of Analysis Replay to execute analysis events on historical data.    

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            March 31, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 7.4 to 8.1   Description: This video is the first of a two part video series walking thru the configuration of Analysis Event which is applied for Real-Time Scoring.  This 1st video demonstrates how to create a Template and Thing which allows for the prediction model to score in real-time.   Note: This video is intended for demo purposes.  Customers who already have ThingWorx should already have their properties set-up.  In this case, you will need to configure the Analysis Event, which is demonstrated in the second part of this video series.    

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            March 31, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 7.4 to 8.1   Description: This video will walk you through the first steps on how to set-up Analytics Manager for Real-Time Scoring and demonstrate how to share your predictive model from Analytics Builder into Analytics Manager, as well as to test the shared model.    

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            March 31, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 7.4 to 8.1   Description: This video will walk you through the first steps on how to set-up Analytics Manager for Real-Time Scoring and demonstrate how to create an Analysis Provider and start the ThingPredictor Agent.     Please Note: In this video, the startup command for the Agent has changed in Release 8.1.  Please refer to the PTC Help center  

Video Author:                     John Greiner Original Post Date:            January 3, 2017 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.0 to 8.0   Description: This video walks you through how to access the ThingWorx Analytics Interactive API Guide.       Get the IP address of the ThingWorx Analytics Server Type:  ip a   Put that IP address into the desired web browser Your IP address may be different from the one in the picture above Add the port number of the server to the end of the IP address The Default  port number is 8080 Make sure to put a colon " : " between the end of the IP address and the start of the port number The port number could be different in some cases, depending if it was configured differently during installation Hit Enter and

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            December 9, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.0 to 8.1   Description: This video walks you through how to upload data and shows the configuration settings.   Please Note: In this video, the shown configuration settings page is different for ThingWorx Analytics 8.1.  

Video Author:                     Asia Garrouj Original Post Date:            November 29, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.0 to 8.1   Description: Signals indicate the predictive strength or weakness of specific features on the goal variable. Use Signals to explore which features are important to predicting outcomes, and which are not.   Please Note:  In this video, it states that a model needs to be created prior to running Signals.  As of ThingWorx Analytics 8.1, this is no longer the case.    

Video Author:                     Mohammed Amine Chehaibi Original Post Date:            December 2, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52 to 8.0   Description: In this video, we will be using Postman to: Create a dataset Enter the dataset configuration Upload the CSV data file to the ThingWorx Analytics Server  

Video Author:                     Mohammed Amine Chehaibi Original Post Date:            November 28, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52 to 8.0   Description: In this video we will cover how to start your virtual image of ThingWorx Analytics using Oracle Virtual Box.    

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            October 10, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.x and 7.4   Description: In this video we cover the process of installing ThingWorx Analytics Server 52.1.  It is suggested that you first review the first part on prerequisites.      

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            October 10, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.x and 7.4   Description: In this video we review the prerequisites needed prior to installing ThingWorx Analytics Server.  

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            September 13, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.2 to 8.0   Description: In this video we cover the installation of the UploadThing Module.   Useful Links: How to copy files from Windows to Linux  

Video Author:                    Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            September 13, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.1 to 8.1 Description: In this video we cover the different configuration steps required for ThingWorx Analytics Builder extension.   Please Note: This video uses Classic Composer.  The same operations can be done using the New Composer starting with version 8.0 as illustrated in the Help Center For release 8.1, the Settings menu differs from previous versions, see What's New in ThingWorx Analytics Builder 8.1 between times 00:12 sec to 00:40 sec for an up to date menu selection.  

Video Author:                     Christophe Morfin Original Post Date:            September 13, 2016 Applicable Releases:        ThingWorx Analytics 52.1 to 8.1 ​ Description: A short introduction to ThingWorx Analytics Builder The import of the ThingWorx Analytics Builder Extension  

This document is a general reference/help with configuring and troubleshooting google email account with the ThingWorx mail extension.To start with the configuration:SMTP: smtp.gmail.com 587, TLS checked.  If SSL is being used, the port should be 465.POP3: pop.gmail.com 995To test, go to "Services" and click on "test" for the SendMessage service. Successful request will show an empty screen with green "result" at the top.Possible errors:Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.gmail.com, port: 587 with nothing else in the logs.Check your Internet connection to ensure it's not being blocked.<hostname:port>/Thingworx/Common/locales/en-US/translation-login.json 404 (Not Found)Check your gmail folders for incoming messages regarding a sign-in from unknown device. The subject will be "Someone has your password", and the email  content will include the device, location, and timestamp of when the incident occurred. Ensure to check the "this was me" option to prevent from further b

Use Case: You’ve published a model from Analytics Builder to Analytics Manager, and then used service CreateOrUpdateThingTemplateForModel on resource TW.AnalysisServices.ModelManagementServicesAPI. A thing created from the resulting template will have an infotable called “data” which needs to be populated in order to trigger an Analysis Event & Job.For example you might have been following the online documentation for Analytics Manager > Working with Thing Predictor > Demo: Using Thing Predictor, link here.This script makes it easy to create a line of test data into field "data" on your thing to trigger the analysis event & job. Also fields causalTechnique, goalName and importantFieldCount are set programmatically, these are needed for the analysis event & job.Also this script might be useful as a general example of how to write to an infotable property on a thing.The JavaScript code is shown here and also attached as a text file to this post:me.causalTechnique = 'FUL

Pushbullet is a lightweight notifications platform and can be a way to explore Alerts and SubscriptionsBasically create an an Alert on a property and Subscribe to that AlertAdding Alert to Property HumidityAdding SubscriptionThe PTC-PushBulletHelper is just a generic Thing with a service called PushNotificationvar json = {    "body": Message,    "title":"Temperature fault",    "type":"note"};var accessHeader = {    "Access-Token": "o.Hnm2DeiABcmbwuc7FSDmfWjfadiLXx2M"};var params = {     proxyScheme: undefined /* STRING */,    headers: accessHeader /* JSON */,     ignoreSSLErrors: undefined /* BOOLEAN */,     useNTLM: undefined /* BOOLEAN */,     workstation: undefined /* STRING */,     useProxy: undefined /* BOOLEAN */,     withCookies: undefined /* BOOLEAN */,     proxyHost

I have implemented an Edge Nano Server that offers the following advantages:Easy to setupNot limited to HTML protocol.  For example, an edge device can be implemented that connects to devices via BluetoothCode can be found here:GitHub - cschellberg/EdgeGatewayCode contains EdgeNanoServer, docker installation scripts(for installing Thingworx Platform), and a test client done in python.Don SchellbergConsultant