Node-RED TTN for grabbing event data not showing information

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

@kbman

According to the documentation in the quick start guide

Okay, too many page are called Quick Start Guide here

• https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/nodered/quick-start.html a.k.a. https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/docs/blob/master/_content/applications/nodered/quick-start.md
• https://github.com/TheThingsNetwork/nodered-app-node/blob/HEAD/docs/quickstart.md

Apparently the screenshots in the documentation on the website are outdated?

@kbman

I don’t have any MQTT client installed locally

Every Node-RED installation I saw has a client in “Input”, just like it has HTTP and all. But of course, the TTN thing should work. Unfortunately, I have only used some old release a long time ago and stopped using that version did not allow for wildcards:

@arjanvanb

For ttn device nodes the TTN Node-RED Quick Start links to “and other device events”, which I guess translates to:

• down/scheduled
• down/sent
• down/acks
• up/errors
• down/errors
• activations/errors

I’ve tested a few from the list. Indeed, for example down/scheduled, down/sent and down/errors work for me, but wildcards such as # or down/+ are not allowed

But it seems the library has evolved, like now using the discovery which I assume makes configuration easier, and maybe wildcards work now as well?

@kbman

with MQTT, I only see the topics found here. None of which give the payload when TTN receives it.

It does: see "payload_raw" and "payload_fields" in the section “Uplink Messages”.

Also, make sure you’ve got the last version installed:

@arjanvanb

To see what version is installed:

cd $HOME/.node-red
npm list node-red-contrib-ttn

@kbman

I’m just looking for a method to get the payloads that my application receives from my nodes and POST them to my webserver.

That’s the HTTP Integration: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/http/