How to configure your Datastream Webhook ?

Here is an article about how to configure your Datastream Webhook.

A Datastream Webhook is an HTTPS communication between our Wattsense backend and your web server.

Available only with a Tower subscription, when our backend will receive either a value, an event or an alarm from the Tower, it will be automatically send to your web server.

Datastream Webhook architecture

Requirements to configure Datastream Webhook

In order to configure the Webhook communication correctly you'll have to get (from your web server parameters, Wattsense does not have them) the important informations that will allow our Backend to connect to it.

To do so, you will need :

Step by step configuration

Connector configuration

First of all, click on the "Organization" tab, select the Organization where you want to create your Webhook datastream and click on "Add a connector".

You can create several Webhook connector per datastream

Name your Webhook Datastream and fill the blanks according to your web server requirements :

Triggers configuration

Once the communication setup is done, you'lle have to create the Triggers :

Triggers define what is required to call the connector and what values to send.

When you click on the " Create new trigger" button, here is the interface you'll have to fill:

- Select what type of trigger you want to receive in your Web server.

- Add the Tower(s) in the list in the scope of the trigger. (Note that you'll only see Towers in the current Organization, not from an other one.)

Activate the Datastream

At the end of the configuration, don't forget to activate the datastream by enabling the toggle button

Data format

The data is sent with the following structure :

deviceId: String,
property: String,
timestamp: Long,
payload: Any,
receivedAt: Long?
scaledPayload: Number?
name: String?
unit: String?
externalId: String?
propertyId: String?
equipmentId: String?
gatewayInterfaceId: String?
slug: String?
isOutOfService: Boolean?
tags: Map<String, String>

The ? at the end of the line means that the field can be null.

Here's an example :

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