The Internet of Things (IoT) box makes you connect easily to your Odoo database with external devices. IoT enhances productivity and boosts easiness. For building the IoT integration, you need no technical expertise. Yes, it is simple, customizable, and highly securable to increase productivity in your business by fully integrating the IoT box with your existing business processes.
The impact of using IoT boxes has excelled in different business sectors like manufacturing, hospitality industries, hospitals, education sectors, eCommerce, warehouse and storage units, to meet up with the advanced IoT technologies which have developed in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning fields most of them use this tool for advance improvement of their business processes.
The odoonix IoT box connects with your external devices like attendece,printer, scanner, Wifi and ethernet cable, etc. Also, it acts as a mediator with the IoT box.
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create a folder with name .vw-gateway
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create a git directory
mkdir .vw-gateway mkdir git
${VW_HOME: /root}
├── git
│ └── odoo-iot
│ ├── docs
│ ├── .git
│ ├── .gitignore
│ ├── readme.md
│ ├── ubuntu
│ ├── .vscode
│ ├── vw-gateway
│ └── vw-iot
├── .ssh
│ ├── authorized_keys
│ ├── id_rsa
│ ├── id_rsa.pub
│ ├── known_hosts
│ └── known_hosts.old
└── .vw-gateway
├── conf.yaml
├── connected_devices.json
├── json_files
│ ├── cups.json
│ └── zktec.json
└── statistics.json- add device public key to github
- clone the following project into the git directory.
cd ~/git git clone https://github.com/odoonix/iot.git --branch 3.5.1 cd ..
- Install pre-requirenemnt based on your os
- install package dependencies
cd ~/git/iot/vw-gateway python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt cd ~
zypper install \
python311-ply \
python311-paho-mqtt \
python311-protobuf \
python311-pycups\
python311-regex\
python311-pycparser\
python311-pip \
python311-cffi \
python311-setuptools-wheel \
python311-cryptography \
python311-future \
python311-jsonpath-rw \
python311-PyYAML \
python311-simplejson \
python311-requests \
python311-PyInquirer \
python311-termcolor \
python311-grpcio \
python311-cachetools \
python311-charset-normalizer \
python311-idna \
python311-urllib3 \
python311-certifi \
python311-Pygments \
python311-prompt-toolkit \
python311-wcwidth
sudo apt-get install \
python3-ply \
python3-paho-mqtt \
python3-protobuf \
python3-regex\
python3-pycparser\
python3-pip \
python3-cffi \
python3-cryptography \
python3-future \
python3-jsonpath-rw \
python3-simplejson \
python3-requests \
python3-termcolor \
python3-grpcio \
python3-cachetools \
python3-charset-normalizer \
python3-idna \
python3-urllib3 \
python3-certifi \
python3-prompt-toolkit \
python3-wcwidth
- copy a template configuration
cp ~/git/iot/vw-gateway/ubuntu/configs/* ~/.vw-gateway/ -fR
cd ~/.vw-gateway
nano conf.json
nano json_files/zktec.json
then update all device configuration
mkdir -p ~/bin
cp ~/git/odoo-iot/ubuntu/vw-gateway.sh ~/bin
chmod +x ~/bin/vw-gateway.sh
cp ~/git/odoo-iot/ubuntu/vw-gateway.service /etc/systemd/system
systemctl status vw-gateway
systemctl enable vw-gateway
systemctl start vw-gateway
Add WorkingDirectory in vw-gateway and Change ExecStart in service
For Example
Change according to the address of the Python file
cat << 'EOF' > vw-gateway.service
[Unit]
Description=My test service
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/root/.vw-gateway
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 "/root/git/odoo-iot/vw-gateway/main.py" --extension "/root/git/odoo-iot/vw-gateway/extensions" --config "/root/.vw-gateway/conf.yaml"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
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systemctl daemon-reload
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systemctl restart vw-gateway
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systemctl enable vw-gateway
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Create logs Folder in WorkingDirectory
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Create logs.conf file