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helium / console

A management console to onboard and manage devices running on the Helium blockchain network.
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Feature request, can MQTT integration send message as JSON, not string #1224

Closed Net-Metrics closed 2 years ago

Net-Metrics commented 2 years ago

I am sending my received uplinks to AWS ActiveMQ but rather than simply 'forwarding' on as JSON, the message gets converted to a string object. This causes problems further down my workflow for extracting the useful parts of the message

Uplink as received in console

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Message received as string after using MQTT integration. Message actually looks like it gets truncated, too long for the payload maybe?

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I could take the string through NodeRed, but then I need to run an instance of that somewhere, I tried using the advanced JSON template but found this very hit or miss. I would need a different integration and template for every type of device, whereas, if the MQTT integration simply repeated the JSON it could all be carried out with a single integration

Net-Metrics commented 2 years ago

Think it must just be an issue with NodeRed, other mqtt integrations receive JSON payload