IoT Open Basic

Basic course for IoT Open developers and integrators.

Chapter 8

“It would be really nice with some cozy relevant quote here!”
― IoT Open Developer

Lynx-bash-scripts

The lynx-bash-scripts are a collection of simple scripts that was created over time when working with the platform. They are a very easy way to quickly explore the API of IoT Open.

Get the scripts

There is a link to the scripts on this page under the Resources -> Software section. If you use the IoT Open Virtual Appliance you can type bash setup-lynx-scripts.sh in the home directory of the iot user.

Installing

See above about how to get the scripts. Once they are installed, you need to create a .config file in the same directory as the scripts. It should look like this.

USERNAME=<email address>
PASS=<password>

BROKER=lynx.iotopen.se
BASE=https://lynx.iotopen.se

TOKEN=`cat .token`

Getting started

iot@iot-open:~/lynx-bash-scripts$ ./login.sh 
Logging in
Login successful

After that, you can try all the scripts out. E.g. get a list of your installations.

./get_installations.sh

Try the other ones out as well. Since they are simple bash-scripts you can always look at them and see what they do.

Example. Get the functions of an installation with ./get_functions.sh <installation_id>. You can list all the scripts with ls.

Exercise

Try some of the scripts out.

Outline