This guide will help you to install ThingsBoard IoT Gateway on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Prerequisites
- The minimum system requirements match official minimum requirements for the OS;
- Install Python version 3.7 or higher.
Step 1. Download the deb file
Download installation package.
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wget https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-gateway/releases/latest/download/python3-thingsboard-gateway.deb
Step 2. Install the gateway using apt
Install ThingsBoard IoT Gateway as package and run it as daemon use the following command:
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sudo apt install ./python3-thingsboard-gateway.deb -y
The deb package will automatically install the necessary libraries for the IOT Gateway to work:
- System libraries: libffi-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libxml2-dev, libxslt-dev, libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev, python3-dev, python3-pip.
- Python modules: importlib, importlib-metadata, jsonschema, pymodbus, lxml, jsonpath-rw, paho-mqtt, pyserial, PyYAML, simplejson, pyrsistent.
Step 3. Check gateway status
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systemctl status thingsboard-gateway
You may notice some errors in the output. However, it is expected, since gateway is not configured to connect to ThingsBoard yet:
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... python3[7563]: ''2019-12-26 09:31:15' - ERROR - mqtt_connector - 181 - Default Broker connection FAIL with error 5 not authorised!'
... python3[7563]: ''2019-12-26 09:31:15' - DEBUG - mqtt_connector - 186 - "Default Broker" was disconnected.'
... python3[7563]: ''2019-12-26 09:31:16' - DEBUG - tb_client - 78 - connecting to ThingsBoard'
... python3[7563]: ''2019-12-26 09:31:17' - DEBUG - tb_client - 78 - connecting to ThingsBoard'
Step 4. Configure the gateway
Now you can go to configuration guide to configure the gateway. In order for the changes to be saved, we need to restart the gateway.
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systemctl restart thingsboard-gateway
