Pachube

mlohbihler

What version are you using? A problem was discovered in 1.9.0, and fixed in 1.10.0. Some quick testing didn't reveal any 1.10.0 issues like you describe.

peadar

its the latest upgrade 1.10.0

peadar

ah think i made a mistake

its working now

will come back later and explain...sorry

peadar

Ok, i'm gonna volunteer a walkthrough to integrating with pachube...it should be ready by the end of the day...

Pachube are a bit weak on the documentation side, despite the absolutely fantastic product they have.

i think the 'mango - pachube' marriage is one made in (ahem...geek) heaven :-)

anyhoo....watch this space :-)

ps. thanks again for the quick reply...

peadar

Ok, here's a quick and dirty guide on how to create a pachube publisher in mango to a pachube feed

1. 'signup' for a free account with pachube at www.pachube.com

2. you'll be sent a welcome email with an API key, so copy that key to the clipbaord

3. go back and sign in to pachube

**4. ** on the right hand side of the page, click "register a feed"
feed type = Manual
feed title = test

then click 'add' under datastreams

ID = 1
type = basicSI
 add another datastream
ID = 2
type = basicSI
	these are your 'Datastream ID"s for mango

5. Now click 'save feed' and you'll be taken to your feeds page:

**6. ** note the 4 or 5 digit number just before ".xml", ".csv", ".json". this is your 'Feed ID' for mango.

**7. ** Create a pachube publisher in Mango
name = test
update events = changes only
send regular snapshots = Do not Tick

API Key = paste in the key from the welcome email from pachube

Add one or two points you'd like to publish, then fill in the boxes:
	Feed ID = see step 6
	Datastream ID = see step 4

8. click 'save' and enable the publisher.

9. if all goes well, you should be able to see a green 'live' in your "my feeds" page on pachube.
Bear in mind this may take a few minutes to come live. mine took about 5-10 mins initially.

10. click "use a feed" on the right of the page to see what you can now do with all this data flying about the internet

11. let me know how you get on :-)

here's one i did earlier:
http://www.securi-trax.com/?p=141

mlohbihler

Thanks for this peadar. Can you describe what was going wrong before so that others can avoid, or so that the software can be enhanced to avoid?

peadar

nothing wrong with mango at all!

The hiccup is, its not so clear from an initial glance how mango correlates to pachube in relation to feed ID and Datastream ID.

It's easy now i understand it, but is a steep learning curve for a novice like me. Plus Pachube is a little weak on the documentation side of things

in my case i didn't put the correct 'Feed ID' into mango so although the publisher was sending the API key and getting a response, it was a 404 or 503 response, so i imagine mango just kept trying to send it until a 200 would come back.

sorry for the confusion, i'll try not to accomplish large tasks like this at night time...all was clear after a few hours kip :-)

hope that can help a few of the members

Peadar

mlohbihler

Ok, thanks. We'll take a look at how non-200 responses are getting handled and see if there's anything more elegant than pounding Pachube with requests.

mlohbihler

Follow-up: the pachube send thread has been changed so that 4xx-type HTTP errors are treated as non-recoverable, under the assumption that the same request sent again will have the same result. This will prevent the publisher from trying to resend the same data over and over, and your receiving a complaint from Pachube.

mhradom

I am successfully pushing data out to Pachube from Mango. Thanks for the tutorial above it was a BIG help. Pachube documentation is lacking or hard to find. Go to www.pachube.com and type in "Mikes House" in the search field and you will see me on the map. Double click the push pin and you will find my first few feeds. More to come. I gave Mango a little plug there as well.