Author: <span class="vcard">kenio.carvalho</span>

As of April 10, 2018, Google has deprecated Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). The GCM server and client APIs are deprecated and will be removed as soon as April 11, 2019. IBM Traveler uses GCM for push notifications with IBM Verse for Android clients. Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) is the new supported notification infrastructure. This flash details what actions should be taken for IBM Traveler and the IBM Verse for Android clients to support the FCM notification infrastructure.

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Node-RED 0.20 brings lots of new enhancements to the editor, some new subflow features and a complete restructure of its internal packaging.  https://nodered.org

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Setup a Node.js development environment is easy but when you need to work in a team, the best option is document all installation steps for everyone.

Every developer must use the same setup or things can be wrong. Bellow are small steps to setup a simple Node.js development environment

1 – Setup Node.js:  https://nodejs.org/en/
2 – Setup VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/setup-overview
3 – Open VS Code create a folder and in this folder save an file as app.js
4 – Setup nodemon:
Nodemon is a utility that will monitor for any changes in your source and automatically restart your server. Perfect for development.
To install nodemom open a terminal window and go to the folder you created on step 3 and  type npm install nodemon –save-dev  on the terminal window . This will install nodemon  as development dependency
5 – change package.json to start the application using nodemon
"name": "Node Development",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "Just another app",
"main": "app.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
"start": "nodemon app.js"
},
"author": "Kenio Carvalho",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"nodemon": "^1.18.10"
}
}
5 – Run npm init on the folder and install Express (npm install express –save) //Production dependency

6 Add the code below to app.js and sav, just to test the environment:

const express = require ('express');
const app = express();
app.use('/',(req,res,next)=>{
 
res.send('<h1>Hello from Expres</h1>')
});
app.listen(3000)

7 run npm start on the terminal

open the url localhost:3000 and you will se the page.

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Connect an Arduino Board to a computer is a easy task right? 99% yes.  My Arduino Nano Board arrived last week and i only have time to play with this board on the last weekend.

When i try to upload a program to the board i got the following:

Arduino: 1.8.8 (Mac OS X), Board: “Arduino Nano, ATmega328P”

Sketch uses 444 bytes (1%) of program storage space. Maximum is 30720 bytes.
Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 1 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x50
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 2 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x72
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 3 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6f
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 4 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x67
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 5 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x72
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 6 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x61
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 7 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x6d
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 8 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x61
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 9 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x20
avrdude: stk500_getsync() attempt 10 of 10: not in sync: resp=0x73
An error occurred while uploading the sketch

I tried on a Windows and Linux coputer with no luck but the same problem.

I read lot’s off posts in Arduino forums, some problems with MAC OS Sierra, i setup drivers  and nothing.

Today i found a solution :

Tools > Board > ATmega328P (Old Bootloader) on Arduino IDE.

The forum post https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=530807.0 has more solutions for another problem. I think is because Arduino has several clones.

 

IoT

Every sensor has it’s own kind off codification
The message from the device is like this one:

{"time": "1551285775",
"deviceType": "deviceType",
"device": "xyzabcd",
"duplicate": "false",
"snr": "30.00",
"rssi": "-128.00",
"avgSnr": "19.39",
"station": "300C",
"lat": "-20.0",
"lng": "-44.0",
"seqNumber": "497",
"data": "1a24183c3801" }

The measurement are encoded on data string, a sequence of 6 bytes.
I read the sensor manual and the temperature are usin the last 4 bytes

To get the temperature value i wrote the following:

var dados = msg.payload.data //get the data value “1a24183c3801”
var v1 = dados.substring(10,11)+dados.substring(11,12)+dados.substring(8,9)+dados.substring(9,10) //get the 4 values as in the device manual
For example the value will be “0138”
The temperature will be temp = parseInt(v1,16)/100
Using the value 0138 the result is 3,12 Degrees Celsius
But if the temperatue is negative you need to test if the first bit of the meesage is 1 and use

temp = parseInt((~parseInt(v1,16) +1 >>> 0).toString(2).substring(16,32),2)/100 * -1

The formula code on the line above use twos complement format, get the last 16 bits and then convert to a decimal value

IoT

Today i am working on a batch operation registering several sensors on IBM Watson IoT.

Using curl you need to encode de API KEY and API TOKEN

It easy using the MAC terminal console

To encode just type on terminal: echo -n ‘user:password’ | base64
the result is —> dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==

To decode just type: echo ‘dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==’ | base64 -D
the result is —> user:password

IoT

I setup the connection to cloudant service to store historical data of my IoT devices. When i click “done” an pop up window appears asking to authorize the connection to Cloudant Service. I confirm to authorize and i get the message 502 Bad Gateway: Registered endpoint failed to handle the request. and i can’t store iot device data on cloudant. I tried several times.

I search a lot about this error message with no luck .  To solve the problem erase all IBM cookies from you browser and restart it.

Cloud IoT

I miss some webinars about Domino V10 . Here is the link to Collaboration Solutions Webinars records

Comunidade Domino

At a high-level, a hybrid cloud is a mixture of private and a public cloud environments that work in tandem to run your workloads and apps. That definition sounds straight-forward, but when you dive in and start to work, you can find hybrid cloud architectures difficult to manage without the right tools.

You can watch a video of a real-world example to clearly understand what works well on a public cloud environment and what is best in a private environment.

 

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I found it today when googling for some solution for my mac and it works!

The web is moving to HTTPS, preventing network attackers from observing or injecting page contents. But HTTPS needs TLS certificates, and while deployment is increasingly a solved issue thanks to the ACME protocol and Let’s Encrypt, development still mostly ends up happening over HTTP because no one can get an universally valid certificate for localhost.

This is a problem because more and more browser features are being made available only to secure origins, and testing with HTTP hides any mixed content issues that can break a production HTTPS website. Developing with HTTPS should be as easy as deploying with HTTPS.

link to github

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IBM Verse is a powerful cloud-based email experience. It’s optimized for web browsers and mobile devices. It helps you focus on your top priorities and take control of action items. This one hour course will help you get started.

https://versetraining.mybluemix.net/#/?_k=j95tjm

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With the launch of Domino 10  knowledge of JavaScript and how to work with JSON Objects will be required for the new development model.

As i am working on a IoT project  i need to learn JSONata to manipulate lots of JSON objects.

JSONata is underpinned by the semantics of the location path inspired by XPath, the ability to format the output into any JSON structure inspired by XQuery, and the functional programming model inspired by Scheme.

The semantics of the location path inspired by XPath

  • Simple and intuitive syntax for selecting values within a structure.
  • Powerful predicate mechanism for complex queries and data joins.
  • Built-in functions and operators for manipulating and aggregating data.

The ability to format the output into any JSON structure inspired by XQuery

  • Standard JSON syntax used for constructing new objects and arrays.
  • Any valid JSON data is also a valid JSONata expression.
  • Allows template style queries to be constructed.

The functional programming model inspired by Scheme.

  • Implements the ‘metacircular evaluator’ described in SICP.
  • Supports user-defined functions (closures).
  • Turing complete.

The lightweight footprint of the runtime processor enables it to run in the web browser or as a node.js module with no package dependencies.

Take a look at http://jsonata.org

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