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Create Device Information in Internet of Things Services Cockpit

Previous Step Enable Internet of Things Services

The following description of interaction steps with the IoT Service Cockpit shows you how to create a Device Type and Message Types associated with it as well as a Device instance.

Remark: The specific values that you create in this process as well as the specific OAuth Authorization Token for your Device instance need to be used to adapt the configuration file config.py for the example applications.

• Open Internet of Things Service Cockpit
• Press on the Go to Service icon of the Internet of Things Services subscription.
• The Internet of Things Services Cockpit will open.

Further information: Internet of Things Services > Getting Started > Accessing the Internet of Things Services Cockpit

• Create Device Type
• Press on Device Types tile in your Internet of Things Services Cockpit.
• Press on the + button to add a new device type.
• Enter a Name for the device type.
• Press on Create to continue.

Further information: Internet of Things Services > Internet of Things Services Cockpit > Configuring Device Type.

• Create Message Type
• Press on Message Types tile in your Internet of Things Services Cockpit.
• Press on the + button to add a new message type.
• Enter a Name for the message type.
• Select a Device Type from the dropdown list.
• Select a Direction from the dropdownlist.
• Enter a Name and select a Type for the first row of the Fields table.
• Optional: Add additional Fields by pressing on the + button on the top right corner of the Fields table.
• Press on Create to continue.

The examples in the Starter Kit use the following specific Message Types that you should also create in order to make the code working without any necessary modification:

• for the communication from Device:

	sensor:string
	value:string
	timestamp:long

• for the communication to Device:

	opcode:string
	operand:string

Further information: Internet of Things Services > Internet of Things Services Cockpit > Configuring Message Type.

• Create Device
• Press on Devices tile in your Internet of Things Services Cockpit.
• Press on the + button to add a new device.
• Enter a Name for the device.
• Select the Device Type for the new device from the drop down menu.
• Press on Create to continue.

• You will see a pop-up window Device Token Generated including the Token ID generated for the new device.

• Copy the generated Device Token since it is needed on the device as OAuth credential for secure communication with the services.

Further information: Internet of Things Services > Internet of Things Services Cockpit > Configuring Device.

• Final result
• You should now have created at least 1 Device Type with 2 associated Message Types and 1 Device instance.

Automated Device Registration with Python and RDMS API

The steps described above could be automated with the exposed RDMS RESTful API. Following the link you will find a Python Script responsible for respective Device Type, Message Types and Device registration.

Authentication mechanisms

Communication with the HCP IoT Services is protected by 2 different authentication mechanisms.

• IoT Devices use OAuth authentication with a respective OAuth token for an individual device provided via the IoT Cockpit
• Applications that trigger interactions with devices via IoT Services or consume data provided by these use Basic Authentication with the respective credentials for the individual user of the HCP account

Respective credential usage is part of the provided source code examples.

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