HTTP Integration help

[aal7]

Hello. I wonder if anyone can help me with HTTP Integrations? I’ve watched the video by Johann here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uebcq7xmI1M) but the problem I’ve got is that I don’t really understand HTTP requests like PUSH, PUT and GET. The documentation on HTTP integrations (https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/http/) is quite short.

I’m trying to find a way to send my things network data somewhere where I can retrieve it at a later time. I have a raspberry pi and a NAS on my network. Could I use HTTP integration to send my data to either of these? If so, is the process documented anywhere?

If anyone could point me towards some beginner-accessible reading, or offer a few hints, I’d be very grateful. Thank you for any help you can offer.

[descartes (Nick McCloud)]

Basically you are giving TTN a web address for it to send a packet of information, a web address that could be on a web server on the public internet or, if you can setup your router, could be on your Pi or, depending on the NAS’s facilities, maybe the NAS.

So, I have a PHP script setup on a server that would respond if I surfed to it in my browser, but if it gets sent info from TTN, saves it in a database - or you can start with just saving in a text file.

Do you have access to a web server with PHP, if so I can give you a code snippet for the text file option.

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

Also:

@arjanvanb

• An HTTP web server along with the HTTP Integration needs you to carefully open up your Pi to the internet (some settings in your modem/router) to allow TTN to connect to it, and needs you to set up the integration in TTN Console.

• An MQTT client for the MQTT Data API connects to TTN itself, so does not need the Pi to be accessible over the internet. Also, many Pi’s come with Node-RED installed, which has built-in support for MQTT. This does not need any configuration in TTN Console (though you could add an extra application Access Key for this specific client).