Ingest device telemetry into ThingsBoard and process it through a rule chain
domain: thingsboard.io · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Provision the device in ThingsBoard and obtain its access token
Publish telemetry from the device via MQTT to v1/devices/me/telemetry, or via HTTP POST to /api/v1/$ACCESS_TOKEN/telemetry
Open the rule chain assigned to the device's device profile (commonly the root rule chain) in the ThingsBoard UI
Use filter nodes such as a message type switch to route incoming telemetry messages by type
Attach action nodes that save time-series data and create an alarm when a threshold condition is met
Verify ingestion by checking Latest Telemetry on the device's page and confirming rule chain execution in the debug/events log
Known gotchas
If a device profile points to a broken or wrong rule chain, telemetry can be silently dropped with no obvious error on the device side
Rule chains use directed relations (e.g., Success/Failure, True/False) between nodes - a misconfigured relation type breaks the flow even if each node is individually correct
HTTP and MQTT telemetry endpoints/paths differ - make sure device firmware matches the transport you provisioned
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