Step 1 - Run the System#

Before proceeding, install the following prerequisites:

• Docker
• Docker compose

Once everything is installed, execute the following command from project root:

make run

This will start Mainflux docker composition, which will output the logs from the containers.

Step 2 - Install the CLI#

Open a new terminal from which you can interact with the running Mainflux system. The easiest way to do this is by usin Mainflux CLI, which can be downloaded as a tarball from GitHub (here we use release 0.7.0 but be sure to use the latest release):

wget -O- https://github.com/mainflux/mainflux/releases/download/0.7.0/mainflux-cli_v0.7.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar xvz -C $GOBIN

Make sure that $GOBIN is added to your $PATH so that mainflux-cli command can be accessible system-wide

Step 3 - Provision the System#

Once installed, you can use the CLI to quick-provision the system for testing:

mainflux-cli provision test

This command actually creates a temporary testing user, logs it in, then creates two things and two channles on behalf of this user. This way we have Mainflux system that have been quickly provisioned with one simple testing scenario.

You can read more about system provisioning in a dedicated Provisioning chapter

Output of the command is something like this:

{
  "email": "friendly_beaver@email.com",
  "password": "123"
}


"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE1NDcwMjE3ODAsImlhdCI6MTU0Njk4NTc4MCwiaXNzIjoibWFpbmZsdXgiLCJzdWIiOiJmcmllbmRseV9iZWF2ZXJAZW1haWwuY29tIn0.Tyk31Ae680KqMrDqP895PRZg_GUytLE0IMIR_o3oO7o"


[
  {
    "id": "513d02d2-16c1-4f23-98be-9e12f8fee898",
    "key": "69590b3a-9d76-4baa-adae-9b5fec0ea14f",
    "name": "d0",
  },
  {
    "id": "bf78ca98-2fef-4cfc-9f26-e02da5ecdf67",
    "key": "840c1ea1-2e8d-4809-a6d3-3433a5c489d2",
    "name": "d1",
  }
]


[
  {
    "id": "b7bfc4b6-c18d-47c5-b343-98235c5acc19",
    "name": "c0"
  },
  {
    "id": "378678cd-891b-4a39-b026-869938783f54",
    "name": "c1"
  }
]

In the Mainflux system terminal (where docker composition is running) you should see following logs:

mainflux-users  | {"level":"info","message":"Method register for user friendly_beaver@email.com took 97.573974ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:16:20.745989495Z"}
mainflux-users  | {"level":"info","message":"Method login for user friendly_beaver@email.com took 69.308406ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:16:20.820610461Z"}
mainflux-users  | {"level":"info","message":"Method identity for client friendly_beaver@email.com took 50.903µs to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:16:20.822208948Z"}
mainflux-things | {"level":"info","message":"Method add_thing for key eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE1NDcwMjE3ODAsImlhdCI6MTU0Njk4NTc4MCwiaXNzIjoibWFpbmZsdXgiLCJzdWIiOiJmcmllbmRseV9iZWF2ZXJAZW1haWwuY29tIn0.Tyk31Ae680KqMrDqP895PRZg_GUytLE0IMIR_o3oO7o and thing 513d02d2-16c1-4f23-98be-9e12f8fee898 took 4.865299ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:16:20.826786175Z"}

...

This proves that these provisioning commands were sent from the CLI to the Mainflux system.

Step 4 - Send Messages#

Once system is provisioned, thing can start sending messages on a channel:

mainflux-cli messages send <channel_id> '[{"bn":"some-base-name:","bt":1.276020076001e+09, "bu":"A","bver":5, "n":"voltage","u":"V","v":120.1}, {"n":"current","t":-5,"v":1.2}, {"n":"current","t":-4,"v":1.3}]' <thing_key>

For example:

mainflux-cli messages send b7bfc4b6-c18d-47c5-b343-98235c5acc19 '[{"bn":"some-base-name:","bt":1.276020076001e+09, "bu":"A","bver":5, "n":"voltage","u":"V","v":120.1}, {"n":"current","t":-5,"v":1.2}, {"n":"current","t":-4,"v":1.3}]' 69590b3a-9d76-4baa-adae-9b5fec0ea14f

In the Mainflux system terminal you should see following logs:

mainflux-things | {"level":"info","message":"Method can_access for channel b7bfc4b6-c18d-47c5-b343-98235c5acc19 and thing 513d02d2-16c1-4f23-98be-9e12f8fee898 took 1.410194ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:19:30.148097648Z"}
mainflux-http   | {"level":"info","message":"Method publish took 336.685µs to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:19:30.148689601Z"}
mainflux-normalizer | {"level":"info","message":"Method normalize took 108.126µs to complete without errors.","ts":"2019-01-08T22:19:30.149500543Z"}

This proves that messages have been well send through the system, via protocol adapter (mainflux-http) and normalizer service which correctly parsed messages.