IoT Tips

This video is the 1st part of a series of two videos walking you through the configuration of Analysis Event which is applied for Real-Time Scoring. This 1st video demonstrate how to create a Template and Thing which allows the prediction model to score in real-time. Note that this video is just for demo purposes, customers who have ThingWorx, they of course already have their properties set-up. They just need to configure Analysis Event which is demonstrated in the part 2 video.   Updated Link for access to this video:  Analytics Manger 7.4: Create a Template & Thing for Real-Time Scoring Part 1 of 2

This video will walk you through the first steps of how to set-up Analytics Manager for Real-Time Scoring. More specifically this video demonstrates how to create an Analysis Provider and start ThingPredictor Agent. NOTE: For version 8.1 the startup command for the Agent has changed view the command in PTC Help center.   Updated Link for access to this video:  ThingWorx Analytics Manager: Create an Analysis Provider & Start the ThingPredictor Agent                                  

ThingWorx Analytics Builder - Upload Data   This video walks you through how to upload data and shows the configuration settings. Please be aware that shown configuration settings page is different for version 8.1.   Updated Link for access to this video:  ThingWorx Analytics Builder: Upload Data

Good evening and Happy New Year!   I launched version 2.3.0 of the GitBackup Extension.  The release is available here https://github.com/vrosu/thingworx-gitbackup-extension/releases/tag/V2.3.0   It adds the capability to push commits using User specific Committer Name and Email. This is an optional feature, which allows multiple developers to push commits under their own credentials. The documentation was updated with more details about this.   This release certifies the Extension to work for ThingWorx 8.5.x. (Previous ThingWorx versions have not been tested and the documentation was updated accordingly).    As always, this extension is not a PTC supported product, so in case you have issues with it, please do not open a PTC Tech Support ticket and instead use GitHub's issue system or the PTC Community.   Please feel free to fork and improve it.

Hi,   I launched version 2.1.0 of the ThingWorx GitBackup Extension on Github, in the following repository: https://github.com/vrosu/thingworx-gitbackup-extension This release contains a few UI fixes and experimental support for proxy.   "The GitBackup extension is updated on a best-effort basis and accepts community fixes, that are best done through GitHub. Please report any troubles via GitHub's Issue system.   Important notice: As you might be aware, we have just launched ThingWorx 8.5 and with it a new solution called Solution Central, which is a brand-new cloud-based service to help you package, store, deploy, and manage your ThingWorx applications.   This service is supported by PTC and it contains features that seem to be similar to the GitBackup extension, but they are not. They are different type of tools: Git is a source versioning tool, while Solution Central is an artifact repository. When deploying applications between ThingWorx instances you should use Solution Central, while if you want to version your entities during development you can use the GitBackup extension"  

Since the marketplace extension is no longer supported and the drivers may be outdated, you may build your own jdbc package/extension: Download the Extension Metadata file Here Download the appropriate JDBC driver Build the extension structure by creating the directory lib/common Place the JAR file in this directory location: lib/common/<JDBC driver jar file> Modify the name attribute of the ExtensionPackage entity in the metadata.xml file as needed Point the file attribute of the FileResource entity to the name of the JDBC JAR file The metadata also contains a ThingTemplate the name is set to MySqlServer, but can be modified as needed Select the lib folder and metadata.xml file and send to a zip archive Tip: The name of the zip archive should match the name given in the name attribute of the ExtensionPackage entity in the metadata.xml file Import the newly created extension as usual To the JDBC extension, simply create a new thing and assign it the new ThingTemplate that was imported with the JDBC extension Configuration Field Explanation: JDBC Driver Class Name ​Depends on the driver being used Refer to documentation JDBC Connection String ​Defines the information needed to establish a connection with the database Connection string examples can be found in the ThingWorx Help Center ConnectionValidationString ​A simple query that will work regardless of table names to be executed to verify return values from the database   Alternatively, you may download the jdbc connector creator from the marketplace here https://marketplace.thingworx.com/Items/jdbc-connector-extension Then you may just view the mashup and use it to package your jdbc jar into an extension (which can be later imported into ThingWorx).  

This video go through the steps required to use the Creo Insight extension: - Download and install the required extension - Set required config.pro options - Create provider in Analytics Manager - Publish sensor from Creo - Create analysis Event in Analysis Manager - Retrieve sensor values from ThingWorx in Creo     See also: - https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article?n=CS277514  for a  written version of those steps. - Creo Help Center