I made a server that sends random numbers between 1-100 and I want to save that data in openremote but I don’t understand how to do it. I’m using a UDP server and I also have a client for receiving the information from openremote.
I just went through some of this attempting to set up a monitoring/recording/logging system for a man trap. You have to have assets with which this data is associated, and while I did it with MQTT rather than UDP it ran successfully, at least for what we needed it to do because we needed network traffic generation, not necessarily 100% accuracy. My hierarchy was something like this:
- Building (building asset)
- Outer Door (door asset)
- Outside Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Outside Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Lobby Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Lobby Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Middle Door (door asset)
- Lobby Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Lobby Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Trap Hall Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Trap Hall Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Inner Door (door asset)
- Trap Hall Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Trap Hall Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Inside Badge reader (presence sensor asset)
- Inside Biometric reader (presence sensor asset)
- Outer Door (door asset)
I was able to publish the information via MQTT using a python script pretending to be the door controller server and watch it show up in real time on the web interface. I did not take any automation further, such as detecting too many failed badge or biometric reads or matches in a short time span. We just needed network traffic.
If this is your goal, just pick any asset type and add some kind of number field to it… then look at the different ways to import it (MQTT, REST, SNMP, etc) and decide which one works best for you.