Hello All,
As part of my internship, I am using Arduino to update remote thingworx properties. I implmented my first arduino program. I started in this program with pushing static values. But REST call from my arduino is not updating properties values. Although from browser it successfully updates properties.
I am using:
1- Thingworx 8.2.1-b140
2- Arduino 1.8.5 leonardo ETH
The output of my code is the following:
My IP address: ***************
connected to the server
Connexion:
prop0: 11.00
prop1: 22.00
client: 1
server: pp-1805191146zt.devportal.ptc.io
appKey: 9bc83f49-adab-46c5-9017-93fe992eaf6a
thingName: myThing
serviceName: myThingService
nameArray0: arduino_value1
nameArray1: arduino_value2
connected2
POST /Thingworx/Things/myThing/Services/myThingService?appKey=9bc83f49-adab-46c5-9017-93fe992eaf6a&method=post&x-thingworx-session=true<&arduino_value1=11.00&arduino_value2=22.00> HTTP/1.1
Host: pp-1805191146zt.devportal.ptc.io
Content-Type: text/html
Connected
And when I put the following url in browser, it updates the properties values:
https://pp-1805191146zt.devportal.ptc.io/Thingworx/Things/myThing/Services/myThingService?appKey=9bc83f49-adab-46c5-9017-93fe992eaf6a&method=post&x-thingworx-session=true%3C&arduino_value1=11.00&arduino_value2=22.00%3E%20HTTP/1.1
Any pointers please on what I may be doing wrong?
The code I used is following:
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet2.h>
#include <ThingWorxEthernet.h>
#define propertyCount 2 //How many values you will be pushing to ThingWorx
// initialize the library instance:
EthernetClient client;
//Initialize network info and ThingWorx server and app key
byte mac[] = {0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED}; //Choose a unique MAC address for the Arduino
char server[] = "pp-1805191146zt.devportal.ptc.io"; //ThingWorx server (do not include http://)
char appKey[] = "9bc83f49-adab-46c5-9017-93fe992eaf6a";
char thingName[] = "myThing"; //Name of your Thing in ThingWorx
char serviceName[] = "myThingService"; //Name of your Service (see above)
//Initialize Property Name Array
char* nameArray[] = {"arduino_value1", "arduino_value2"};
double propertyValues[propertyCount];
unsigned long lastConnectionTime = 0; // last time you connected to the server, in milliseconds
//Interval of time at which you want the properties values to be sent to TWX server
int timeBetweenRefresh = 5000;
ThingWorx myThing(propertyCount); // Initialize your ThingWorx Object
void setup() {
// start serial port:
Serial.begin(9600);
while(!Serial);
// give the ethernet module time to boot up:
delay(1000);
// start the Ethernet connection:
if (Ethernet.begin(mac)!= 0){
// print the Ethernet board/shield's IP address:
Serial.print("My IP address: ");
Serial.println(Ethernet.localIP());
}
// if you get a connection, report back via serial:
if (client.connect(server, 443)) {
//myThing.UpdateValues(tab,client,server,appKey,thingName,serviceName,nameArray);
Serial.println("connected to the server");
} else {
// if you didn't get a connection to the server:
Serial.println("connection failed");
}
// Aquire properties values
propertyValues[0] = 11;
propertyValues[1] = 22;
// if you're not connected, and ten seconds have passed since
// your last connection, then connect again and send data:
if (millis() - lastConnectionTime > timeBetweenRefresh) {
Serial.println ("Connexion:");
Serial.print ("prop0: "); Serial.println(propertyValues[0]);
Serial.print ("prop1: "); Serial.println(propertyValues[1]);
Serial.print ("client: "); Serial.println(client);
Serial.print ("server: "); Serial.println(server);
Serial.print ("appKey: "); Serial.println(appKey);
Serial.print ("thingName: "); Serial.println(thingName);
Serial.print ("serviceName: "); Serial.println(serviceName);
Serial.print ("nameArray0: "); Serial.println(nameArray[0]);
Serial.print ("nameArray1: "); Serial.println(nameArray[1]);
updateValues(propertyValues,client,server,appKey,thingName,serviceName,nameArray);
lastConnectionTime = millis(); //Note the last connection time
Serial.println ("Connected");
}
}
void loop() {
}
void updateValues(double propertyValues[] , EthernetClient &client, char server[], char appKey[], char thingName[], char serviceName[], char* propertyNames[]) {
//build the String with the data that you will send
//through REST calls to your TWX server
char data[80];
strcpy(data, "?appKey=");
strcat(data, appKey);
strcat(data, "&method=post&x-thingworx-session=true");
// if you get a connection, report back via serial:
if (client.connected()) {
Serial.println("connected2");
// send the HTTP POST request:
client.print("POST /Thingworx/Things/");
client.print(thingName);
client.print("/Services/");
client.print(serviceName);
client.print(data);
client.print("<");
for(int idx = 0; idx < propertyCount; idx++)
{
client.print("&");
client.print(propertyNames[idx]);
client.print("=");
client.print(propertyValues[idx]);
}
client.print(">");
client.println(" HTTP/1.1");
client.print("Host: ");
client.println(server);
client.println("Content-Type: text/html");
client.println();
// print the request out
Serial.print("POST /Thingworx/Things/");
Serial.print(thingName);
Serial.print("/Services/");
Serial.print(serviceName);
Serial.print(data);
Serial.print("<");
for(int idx = 0; idx < propertyCount; idx++)
{
Serial.print("&");
Serial.print(propertyNames[idx]);
Serial.print("=");
Serial.print(propertyValues[idx]);
}
Serial.print(">");
Serial.println(" HTTP/1.1");
Serial.print("Host: ");
Serial.println(server);
Serial.println("Content-Type: text/html");
Serial.println();
} else {
// if you couldn't make a connection:
Serial.println("the connection could not be established");
client.stop();
}
}
