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  * ThingsBoard cloud account
  * MQTT Broker (public or private) such as,
--** [[ThingsBoard MQTT broker>>https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/]] (TBMQ)
--** **[[HiveMQ Cloud>>https://www.hivemq.com]] **-** **You can create a free account to try it or subscribe for a paid account.
--** [[emqx>>https://www.emqx.com/zh/mqtt/public-mqtt5-broker]] - The public MQTT server is only used for MQTT learning and testing, and should not be used in the production environment.
++** **[[HiveMQ Cloud>>https://www.hivemq.com]] - You can create a free account to try it or subscribe for a paid account. - We use HiveMQ Cloud as the MQTT broker to build example in this tutorial.**
++** [[emqx>>https://www.emqx.com/zh/mqtt/public-mqtt5-broker]] - The public MQTT server is only used for MOTT learning and testing, and should not be used in the production environment.
  ** [[lns1.thingseye.io>>http://lns1.thingseye.io/]] - This is Dragino's MQTT broker, which requires a CA certificate to use.
  == 2.1 ThingsBoard Cloud ==
@@ -68,19 +68,11 @@
  [[image:thingsboard-6.png||height="244" width="500"]]
--== 2.2 MQTT Brokers ==
++== 2.2 HiveMQ Cloud ==
--This section introduces some MQTT brokers that you can use to publish messages from the device side and subscribe from the ThingsBoard side.
++=== 2.2.1 HiveMQ Cloud ===
--=== 2.2.1 ThingsBoard MQTT broker (TBMQ) ===
--
--The complete instructions for installing, configuring, and using the TBMQ can be found [[here>>https://thingsboard.io/docs/mqtt-broker/getting-started/]].
--
--
--=== 2.2.2 HiveMQ Cloud ===
--
--
  Go to [[https:~~/~~/www.hivemq.com>>https://www.hivemq.com]]
  Click on the **Start Free** button.
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
  You will need these MQTT connection parameters when configuring the MQTT integration in the '**Add Integration**' section.
--=== 2.2.3 emqx ===
++=== 2.2.2 emqx ===
  The [[emqx>>https://www.emqx.com/zh/mqtt/public-mqtt5-broker]] public MQTT server is only used for MOTT learning and testing, and should not be used in the production environment.
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
  [[image:emqx.png||height="420" width="500"]]
--=== 2.2.4 Ins1.thingseye.io ===
++=== 2.2.3 Ins1.thingseye.io ===
  [[lns1.thingseye.io>>http://lns1.thingseye.io/]] is the Dragino's MQTT broker, which requires a CA certificate file, Certificate file, and the Private key file to use.
@@ -344,6 +344,7 @@
  * **Topic**: # (the # symbol indicates that it filters all topics).
  * **QoS:** 0-At most once
++
  [[image:add-integration-4.png||height="484" width="500"]]
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
  Go back to the **Integrations** page.
--Click on the **MQTT integration** in the **Integrations** page to see its details.
++Click on the **MQTT integration NB/CB** in the **Integrations** page to see its details.
  Click on the **Edit** button (//**pen icon**//).
@@ -439,10 +439,11 @@
  Then click on the **Apply changes** (//**tick icon**//) button.
++[[image:debug-enabled.png||height="301" width="700"]]
--[[image:Screenshot 2025-04-21 122936.png||height="247" width="500"]]
++
  Now go to the **Events** tab.
  Select the **Event type** as **Debug** from the dropdown list.
@@ -450,19 +450,24 @@
  Publish another message (of course, you can repeat the previous message by pressing the UP arrow on your keyboard and then press Enter key) to your MQTT broker from your terminal, for example:
  {{code language="none"}}
--mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/350693903995577" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "Model":"TS01-NB", "temperature":30, "humidity":82, "pressure":1005}'
++mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/a" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "temperature":30, "humidity":80, "pressure":1005}'
  {{/code}}
  Now you can see that uplink message in the **Events** tab (Click the **refresh** button if you didn't see any messages in the Events tab). The status should be **OK **if there is no errors in your integration.
++[[image:Screenshot 2025-03-26 at 19.49.31.png]]
++
++
++
  Then click on the **three dots (...)** in the **Message** column. You can see the uplink message's **payload** in the **Message** window.
++[[image:Screenshot 2025-03-26 at 19.47.52.png]]
--[[image:Screenshot 2025-04-21 122909.png]]
++
  Now, you have successfully tested your integration with a simulated uplink payload and verified that it is received by ThingsBoard, and the device is provisioned.
@@ -474,6 +474,11 @@
  This section guides you on how to create a dashboard to display temperature and humidity data from the device on a time-series chart. You may also use other widgets in ThingsBoard to display data according to your requirements.
++First simulate a few messages using MQTT. This time, we have added the 'humidity' field to the payload. Eg:
++
++{{code language="none"}}mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/a" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "temperature":22, "humidity":80, "pressure":1005}'{{/code}}
++
++
  In **ThingsBoard**, from the left navigation menu, click **Dashboards**. Then, click the **+** button and select **Create new dashboard** from the dropdown menu.
@@ -509,11 +509,10 @@
  Configure the **Time series chart** widget as follows:
--* **Datasource** - select **350693903995577 **you provisioned.
++* **Datasource** - select **Device A** device you provisioned.
  * **Series**:
  ** **temperature** - you can see this key by default.
--** **humidity** - Click **Add series** button. Then choose **humidity** for the key, and then type **%** as its unit.
--** pressure -  Click **Add series** button. Then choose **humidity** for the key, and then type Pa as its unit.
++** **humidity** - Click **Add series** button. Then add the **humidity** for the key and then type **%** as its unit.
  * Click on the **Add** button.
  {{info}}
@@ -520,27 +520,34 @@
  You can add only the relevant fields from the device's payload to display data on a widget. These fields are called 'keys'.
  {{/info}}
++[[image:Screenshot 2025-03-31 at 06.51.15.png||height="485" width="700"]]
--[[image:Screenshot 2025-04-21 123647.png||height="466" width="700"]]
--
--
  The time-series chart will appear in edit mode. Resize it by clicking and dragging the lower-right corner.
  Click the **Save** button to add the widget to the dashboard.
--[[image:Screenshot 2025-04-21 124145.png||height="443" width="700"]]
++[[image:timeseries-3.png||height="347" width="700"]]
--**Now send a few MQTT messages from the terminal to simulate the data. Use different values for temperature, humidity, and pressure in each message.**
++Now send the following MQTT messages from the terminal to simulate the data.
--**The chart will update with the values in real time, and you will see a live chart similar to this:**
++{{code language="none"}}
++mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/a" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "temperature":22, "humidity":70, "pressure":1005}'
--[[image:Screenshot 2025-04-21 124054.png||height="441" width="700"]]
++mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/a" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "temperature":27, "humidity":72, "pressure":1005}'
++mosquitto_pub -d -q 1 -h 011731f7928xxxxx.s1.eu.hivemq.cloud -p 8883 -u "xxxxx" -P "xxxxx" -t "device/a" -m '{"IMEI":"350693903995577", "temperature":19, "humidity":80, "pressure":1005}'
++{{/code}}
++The chart will update with the values in realtime, as shown in the below image.
++
++
++[[image:timeseries-4.png||height="316" width="700"]]
++
++
  = 8. Configure Physical NB-IoT Sensor =
@@ -552,8 +552,8 @@
  **AT Commands**
  * **AT+PRO=3,3    **~/~/ Use MQTT to connect to ThingsBoard. Payload Type set to 3.
--* **AT+SUBTOPIC=<MQTT subscribe topic> Eg: # -  **You can leave the SUBTOPIC configuration as it is, since we are not sending downlink messages to the device at the moment.
--* **AT+PUBTOPIC=<MQTT publish topic> Eg: #**
++* **AT+SUBTOPIC=<MQTT subscribe topic> Eg: TS01-NB**
++* **AT+PUBTOPIC=<MQTT publish topic> Eg: TS01-NB**
  * **AT+CLIENT=null**
  * **AT+UNAME=<MQTT Username>**
  * **AT+PWD=<MQTT Password>**
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@
  Test your uplink by pressing the ACT button for 1 second.
++
  The following image shows the uplink payload of a real Dragino device. The publish topic is '**TS01-NB' that contains fields in the payload, IMEI, IMSI, Model, temperature, etc**. Note that we have created a device named **TS01-NB** in the **Devices** section in advance.

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