melita.io

This article explains how Tenant Owners can connect the thingsHub to the melita.io LoRaWAN Network Server. The melita.io LoRaWAN Network Server is a LoRaWAN Network Server operated by melita.io.

Requirements

• https://www.melita.io/ account

• Thingshub Tenant account

Overview

Server Connection Process

Melita 2.0 Set up

After registering on the melita.io portal we need to make a few requests to their API and save some values that we will need to use to set up the Melita 2.0 network connection on the ThingsHub. Please follow the step by step guide:

1. Retrieve your API key from the Account’s page in melita.io portal

2. In the swagger documentation we need to make few requests to their API and retrieve some values

3. Choose the token-controller -> Generate Authentication Token endpoint

   1. Click on Try it out and Fill the ApiKey value text box with the API Key value copied from the melita portal account and click Execute

   2. From the response save the authToken value which should look something like this:  

      CODE

      "authToken": "0oCmCokKUM38GFYagDVQlzJnZskSadvPQkQHGWooug1Lk"

4. Choose the contract-controller -> Get All Contracts endpoint

   1. Click on Try it out and leave the contractId value empty and in the Authorization value text box paste the authToken value after “Bearer” ending with something like this: 

      CODE

      Bearer 0oCmCokKUM38GFYagDVQlzJnZskSadvPQkQHGWooug1Lk

   2. From the response, save the contractId value

      CODE

      "contractId": "101864962"

5. Choose the devices-controller -> Get Device Profiles endpoint

   1. Click on Try it out and in the Authorization value text box paste the authToken value after “Bearer” ending with something like this: 

      CODE

      Bearer 0oCmCokKUM38GFYagDVQlzJnZskSadvPQkQHGWooug1Lk

   2. From the response, save the id value  

   3. CODE

       "id": "9ccc70c3-a762-4e65-994b-8c7aec554d37"

ThingsHub Setup

1. In the IoT connection wizard, when creating a new connector, choose Melita 2.0 in the dropdown menu and enter all of the above information

2. After creation, note down the Push URL on the connection’s Configuration tab

3. Go to the melita offers page and paste the Push URL into the API URL field of the Offer you selected above

Parameters

The following parameters need to be set when creating a Melita 2.0 Network Connector: