Thingsboard is an open-source IoT platform that allows you to collect, analyze, and visualize data from your IoT devices. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Thingsboard on your Elementary OS Latest system.
Before you start the installation process, you need to have the following:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
Follow these steps to install Thingsboard on your Elementary OS Latest:
Go to the Thingsboard website (https://thingsboard.io/), and click on the "Get Started" button. You will be redirected to the download page. Select the latest version of Thingsboard, and download the package file.
Open the terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Thingsboard package. Once in there, extract the package by running the following command:
tar xvf thingsboard-<version>.tgz
This will extract the package in a folder named "thingsboard-
To start Thingsboard, navigate to the "bin" folder in the extracted package folder and run the following command:
./start.sh
This will start Thingsboard. You can access Thingsboard by opening your web browser and entering the following URL: http://localhost:8080.
Once you have started Thingsboard, you can test it by adding a new device. To add a device, click on the "Devices" tab, and then click on the "Add Device" button. Follow the instructions to create a new device.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Thingsboard on your Elementary OS Latest system.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Thingsboard on Elementary OS Latest. Now that you have installed Thingsboard, you can start connecting your IoT devices and collecting data.
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