Thingsboard is an open-source platform for IoT (Internet of Things) device management, data collection, processing, and visualization. In this tutorial, we'll guide you on how to install Thingsboard on the latest version of the NixOS operating system.
Before we start with the installation, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
Thingsboard requires Java to run. In this step, we'll install Java on our NixOS system by running the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.java
Thingsboard uses PostgreSQL as its database management system. We'll install PostgreSQL on our NixOS system by running the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.postgresql
Now that we have Java and PostgreSQL installed, we can proceed to install Thingsboard on our NixOS system. Run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.thingsboard
The installation process will take some time, depending on your internet speed.
Before we can start using Thingsboard, we need to create a new PostgreSQL database for it. Run the following commands to create a new PostgreSQL database and user:
sudo su postgres
psql
CREATE DATABASE thingsboard;
CREATE USER thingsboard WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE thingsboard TO thingsboard;
\q
exit
Replace your_password with a secure password of your choice.
Finally, let's start Thingsboard by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start thingsboard
If you want to start Thingsboard on system startup, run the following command:
sudo systemctl enable thingsboard
In this tutorial, we've seen how to install Thingsboard on the latest version of NixOS. Now you can use Thingsboard for your IoT device management, data collection, processing, and visualization. Happy hacking!
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