MQTT IoT Sensor to InfluxDB

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  },
  "name": "Remote IOT Sensor monitoring via MQTT and InfluxDB",
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      "name": "Sticky Note",
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      "position": [
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      ],
      "parameters": {
        "width": 340,
        "height": 120,
        "content": "MQTT trigger subscribed to a topic called wokwi-weather via a Mosquitto MQTT broker. The trigger receives the temperature and humidity payloads from a DHT22 sensor connected to a remote ESP32 microcontroller "
      },
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    },
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        "content": "Javascript code to extract the temperature and humidity values to ensure correct JSON format for the database"
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      "parameters": {
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        "content": "HTTP request node posts temperature and humidity data from the DHT22 sensor to the InfluxDB data bucket running on a local host http://localhost:8086"
      },
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    {
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      "parameters": {
        "topics": "wokwi-weather",
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      },
      "credentials": {
        "mqtt": {
          "name": "<your credential>"
        }
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      "parameters": {
        "url": "http://localhost:8086/api/v2/write?orgID=<Organization ID>&bucket=<InfluxDB bucket name>&precision=s",
        "body": "={{ $json.payload }}",
        "method": "POST",
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        "sendBody": true,
        "contentType": "raw",
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "Authorization",
              "value": "Token  <API Token value generated in InfluxDB>"
            }
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      "parameters": {
        "jsCode": "// Try to parse the incoming message as JSON\nlet data;\ntry {\n  data = JSON.parse($json.message); // $json.message is expected to be a JSON string\n} catch (e) {\n  // If parsing fails, throw an error\n  throw new Error(\"Invalid JSON in MQTT message\");\n}\n\n// Get the topic from the input, or use a default value\nconst topic = $json.topic || \"unknown-topic\";\n\n// Make sure humidity and temp are numbers\nif (typeof data.humidity !== \"number\" || typeof data.temp !== \"number\") {\n  throw new Error(\"Missing or invalid humidity/temp in MQTT message\");\n}\n\n// Create a formatted string like: \"topic_name humidity=45,temp=22\"\nconst line = `${topic} humidity=${data.humidity},temp=${data.temp}`;\n\n// Return the result in the expected format\nreturn [\n  {\n    json: {\n      payload: line\n    }\n  }\n];"
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        ]
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}

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About this workflow

Remote IOT Sensor monitoring via MQTT and InfluxDB. Uses stickyNote, mqttTrigger, httpRequest. Event-driven trigger; 6 nodes.

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