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Re: [om2m-dev] maybe a stupid question on the things' side
Hello Massimo,

Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate the things that your are trying to do and put together in your project.

There are two mechanisms to integrate legacy devices into OM2M.

Case 1) HTTP or CoAP enabled devices.
Let's suppose that you have a HTTP-enabled plug device with IP address 192.168.0.4 and listening port 9090.
You can monitor and control this plug using this two specific HTTP requests:
Since, by default OM2M offers the HTTP binding, then you can create an application resource called MY_DEVICE  containing "http://192.168.0.4:9090" as specific Application Point of Contact (APoC).
HTTP request example:

POST 127.0.0.1:8080/om2m/gscl/applications
<om2m:application xmlns:om2m="http://uri.etsi.org/m2m" appId="MY_DEVICE">
    <om2m:aPoCPaths>
         <om2m:aPoCPath>
            <om2m:path>http://192.168.0.4:9090</om2m:path>
        </om2m:aPoCPath>
    </om2m:aPoCPaths>
</om2m:application>

That's all. Now when you send a HTTP  GET request to the GSCL with this URI "127.0.0.1:8080/om2m/gscl/applications/MY_DEVICE/state", the GSCL will automatically translate it to http://192.168.0.4:9090/state based on the information stored on the APoC.
Then, the HTTP request is re-targeted to  your plug device, and the HTTP response is returned to you.
If you send a HTTP  POST request with empty body to the GSCL with this URI "127.0.0.1:8080/om2m/gscl/applications/MY_DEVICE/toggle", it will be automatically translated to http://192.168.0.4:9090/toggle and re-targeted to your device to toggle it.

In addition, you can create an oBIX XML description for the MY_DEVICE application within a specific container to advertise your device operations and simplify their discovery.
Let's suppose that the "DESCRIPTOR" container is already created in this URL: /gscl/applications/MY_DEVICE/containers/DESCRIPTIOR

HTTP request example:

POST 127.0.0.1:8080/om2m/gscl/applications/MY_DEVICE/containers/DESCRIPTOR/contentInstances
<obj>
    <str name="type" val="xxxx"/>
    <str name="location" val="yyyy"/>
    <op name="get" href="" is="retrieve"/>
    <op name="toggle" href="" is="execute"/>
</obj>

If you check the created contentInstance on the OM2M web interface, you will find the device attributes and nice buttons that you can use to monitor and control your device.

You can use also use "create" (is="create") and delete  (is="delete") operations if needed.

Since OM2M implements the CoAP communication binding, CoAP-enabled devices can be integrated using the same approach explained for HTTP.

Case 2) Other legacy devices

To integrate IP-enabled devices speaking other protocols like MQTT  or non IP-enabled devices like Zigbee, you need to create a specific Interworking Proxy Unit (IPU) plugin to make the required mapping.
You can check the following developer guide https://wiki.eclipse.org/OM2M/Developer to learn how to add a new plugin to OM2M and implement you own IPU.

Hope this can help,
Mahdi

Le 09/02/2015 22:41, Massimo Vecchio a écrit :
Hi all,
first let me take this opportunity to thank the developers team for this really amazing project!!!

I could build the project from maven flawlessly (and this is already a personal success for me, not being so smart at pure s/w side). The merit goes to the crystal clear wiki documentation! congrats again.
Then the big question mark that is floating in my head...
Imagine that I decide to migrate all my little vertical apps developed in the last couple of years. Such apps involve sensors and microcontrollers (mostly arduino-like): in the end little bits and things which normally are not IP-based but can communicate via short range communication techs (like bluetooth, nrf, xrf, srf, etc etc). Normally data reach my gateway (let's be short...a raspberry pi) which through a dev. framework like node-red can end up on the internet...
Now, my question is: how can I "port" my current h/w&s/w mix into om2m? what are the (ideal) sequential steps to follow? is it worth (apparently yes to me....that's why I started getting involved in this challenge...)? any advice from anyone that already tried this out?

Thanks!

M
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