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Installing ThingsBoard Edge on Windows

ThingsBoard Edge and ThingsBoard Server versions compatibility rules:

  • ThingsBoard Edge version X.Y.Z is compatible with ThingsBoard Server version X.Y.Z and above.
  • ThingsBoard Edge version X.Y.Z is NOT compatible with ThingsBoard Server versions below X.Y.Z.

Example: ThingsBoard Edge version 3.3.4.1 is compatible with ThingsBoard server version 3.3.4.1 and above (3.4.0, 3.4.1, …). ThingsBoard Edge version 3.4.0 is NOT compatible with ThingsBoard server version 3.3.4.1 or below (3.3.4, 3.3.3, …). ThingsBoard Server 3.3.4.1 or below should be upgraded to ThingsBoard Server 3.4.0 or above first.

Please make sure that ThingsBoard Server is updated to the latest version before proceed.

Please consider to use Linux installation option, because Linux is the most stable platform for running ThingsBoard. Windows installation will be deprecated in the future. You can find Linux installation guides on Installation Guide page.

This guide describes how to install ThingsBoard Edge on Windows machine. Instructions below are provided for Windows 10/8.1/8/7 32-bit/64-bit.

Prerequisites

ThingsBoard Cloud server

To start using ThingsBoard Edge you need to have ThingsBoard server that supports edge functionality up and running.

The easiest way is to use Live Demo server.
The alternative option is to install ThingsBoard Community Edition server that supports edge functionality on-premise. Please visit Install CE to install 3.3 version or higher of server that supports edge functionality.

Edge provision on cloud

Additionally, you will need to provision ThingsBoard Edge on cloud server. Please follow Step 1 first if you skipped it.

Once ThingsBoard Edge provisioned on cloud server please follow installation steps below.

Edge hardware requirements

Hardware requirements depend on an amount of devices connected to the edge and GUI usage locally.

To run ThingsBoard Edge without heavily usage of GUI (local dashboards, device management etc.) and relatively small amount of devices (under 100) on a single machine you will need at least 1GB of RAM.

To run ThingsBoard Edge with heavily usage of GUI (local dashboards, device management etc.) and with 100+ devices on a single machine we recommend having at least 4GB of RAM.

Step 1. Install Java 11 (OpenJDK)

ThingsBoard service is running on Java 11. Follow this instructions to install OpenJDK 11.

  • Visit Open JDK Download Page to download latest OpenJDK 11 (LTS) MSI package.
  • Run the downloaded MSI package and follow the instructions. Make sure you have selected “Add to PATH” and “Set JAVA_HOME variable” options to “Will be installed on local hard drive” state.
  • Visit PostgreSQL JDBC Download Page to download PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
  • Copy downloaded file to C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jdk-11.0.10.9-hotspot\jre\lib\ext and add a global variable named CLASSPATH with value .;”C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jdk-11.0.10.9-hotspot\jre\lib\ext\postgresql-42.2.18.jar” to your system (right click on “My Computer”, scroll down, “Advanced System Settings”, “Advanced”, “Environmental variables…”, under “System variables” click “Create…”).
  • If the jre folder does not exists under “C:\Program Files\AdoptOpenJDK\jdk-11.0.10.9-hotspot” path, create this folder and all required sub-folders

You can check the installation using the following command (using Command Prompt):

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java -version

Expected command output is:

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C:\Users\User>java -version
openjdk version "11.0.xx"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (AdoptOpenJDK)(...)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (AdoptOpenJDK)(...)

Step 2. Configure PostgreSQL

ThingsBoard Edge uses PostgreSQL database as a local storage.

PostgreSQL Installation

Download the installation file (PostgreSQL 11.7 or newer releases) here and follow the installation instructions.

During PostgreSQL installation, you will be prompted for superuser (postgres) password. Don’t forget this password. It will be used later. For simplicity, we will substitute it with “postgres”.

Create ThingsBoard Edge Database

Once installed, launch the “pgAdmin” software and login as superuser (postgres). Open your server and create database tb_edge with owner “postgres”.

Step 3. ThingsBoard Edge service installation

Download and extract the package.

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https://github.com/thingsboard/thingsboard-edge/releases/download/v3.5/tb-edge-windows-3.5.zip

Note: We assume you have unzipped package to default location: C:\Program Files (x86)\tb-edge

Step 4. Configure ThingsBoard Edge

Open the Notepad or other editor as administrator user (right click on the app icon and select “Run as administrator”).
Open the following file for editing (select “All Files” instead of “Text Documents” in file choosing dialog, the encoding is UTF-8):

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C:\Program Files (x86)\tb-edge\conf\tb-edge.yml
Database configuration

In the file “tb-edge.yml” from the previous step locate “# SQL DAO Configuration” block.

Don’t forget to replace YOUR_POSTGRES_PASSWORD_HERE with your real postgres user password:

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# SQL DAO Configuration
spring:
  data:
    jpa:
      repositories:
        enabled: "true"
  jpa:
    hibernate:
      ddl-auto: "none"
  datasource:
    driverClassName: "${SPRING_DRIVER_CLASS_NAME:org.postgresql.Driver}"
    url: "${SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL:jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/tb_edge}"
    username: "${SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME:postgres}"
    password: "${SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD:YOUR_POSTGRES_PASSWORD_HERE}"
Configure cloud connectivity

Locate “# Cloud configuration” block and replace PUT_YOUR_EDGE_KEY_HERE and PUT_YOUR_EDGE_SECRET_HERE with Edge key and secret respectively.

Please replace PUT_YOUR_CLOUD_IP with an IP address of the machine where ThingsBoard version is running:

  • Use demo.thingsboard.io if you are connecting edge to ThingsBoard Live Demo for evaluation.

  • Use localhost in case edge is running on the same machine where cloud instance is running.
  • Use X.X.X.X IP address in case edge is connecting to the cloud instance in the same network or in the docker.
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# Cloud configuration
cloud:
    routingKey: "${CLOUD_ROUTING_KEY:PUT_YOUR_EDGE_KEY_HERE}"
    secret: "${CLOUD_ROUTING_SECRET:PUT_YOUR_EDGE_SECRET_HERE}"
    rpc:
      host: "${CLOUD_RPC_HOST:PUT_YOUR_CLOUD_IP}"

If ThingsBoard Edge is going to be running on the same machine where ThingsBoard server (cloud) is running, you’ll need to update additional configuration parameters to avoid port collision between ThingsBoard server and ThingsBoard Edge.

Please locate and change next parameters in ThingsBoard Edge configuration file (C:\Program Files (x86)\tb-edge\conf\tb-edge.yml):

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port: “${HTTP_BIND_PORT:18080}”
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bind_port: “${MQTT_BIND_PORT:11883}”
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bind_port: “${COAP_BIND_PORT:15683}”
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bind_port: “${LWM2M_ENABLED:false}”
…

Please make sure ports above (18080, 11883, 15683) are not used by any other application.

Step 5. Run installation script

Launch windows shell (Command Prompt) as Administrator. Change directory to your ThingsBoard Edge installation directory.

Execute install.bat script to install ThingsBoard Edge as a Windows service. This means it will be automatically started on system startup. Similar, uninstall.bat will remove ThingsBoard Edge from Windows services. The output should be similar to this one:

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C:\Program Files (x86)\tb-edge\install.bat
Detecting Java version installed.
CurrentVersion 110
Java 11 found!
Installing Thingsboard Edge...
...
ThingsBoard Edge installed successfully!

Step 6. Start ThingsBoard Edge service

Now let’s start the ThingsBoard Edge service! Open the command prompt as an Administrator and execute the following command:

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net start tb-edge

Expected output:

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The ThingsBoard Edge Server Application service is starting.
The ThingsBoard Edge Server Application service was started successfully.

In order to restart the ThingsBoard Edge service you can execute following commands:

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net stop tb-edge
net start tb-edge

Step 7. Open ThingsBoard Edge UI

Once started, you will be able to open ThingsBoard Edge UI using the following link http://localhost:8080.

Use next ThingsBoard Edge UI link http://localhost:18080 if you updated HTTP 8080 bind port to 18080.

Please use your tenant credentials from local cloud instance or ThingsBoard Live Demo to log in to the ThingsBoard Edge.

Troubleshooting

The log files are located in logs folder (“C:\Program Files (x86)\tb-edge\logs” in our case).

The tb-edge.log file should contain following line:

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YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss,sss [main] INFO  o.t.server.TbEdgeApplication - Started TbEdgeApplication in x.xxx seconds (JVM running for x.xxx)

In case of any unclear errors, use general troubleshooting guide or contact us.

Windows firewall settings

In order to have external access to ThingsBoard Web UI and device connectivity (HTTP, MQTT, CoAP) you need to create a new inbound rule with Windows Firewall with Advanced Security.

  • Open “Windows Firewall” from “Control Panel”:

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  • Click “Advanced settings” on the left panel:

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  • Select “Inbound Rules” on the left panel, then click “New Rule…” on the right “Actions” panel:

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  • Now new “New Inbound Rule Wizard” window will open. On the first step “Rule Type” select “Port” option:

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  • On the “Protocol and Ports” step select “TCP” protocol and enter port list 8080, 1883, 5683 in the “Specific local ports” field:

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  • On the “Action” step leave “Allow the connection” option selected:

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  • On the “Profile” step select Windows network profiles when to apply this rule:

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  • Finally, give the name to this rule (for ex. “ThingsBoard Service Networking”) and click “Finish”.

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Next Steps

Congratulations! You have successfully provisioned, installed and connected ThingsBoard Edge to ThingsBoard server.

You can continue with Getting started guide to get the basic knowledge of ThingsBoard Edge or you can jump directly to more advanced topics: