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[KB] How to let a third party access your flespi account?
Sometimes you want to share access to your flespi account or certain tool with a colleague, contractor, or another third party.
In the new KB article we explain how you can go about providing it.
https://flespi.com/kb/how-to-let-a-third-party-access-your-flespi-account
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[KB] How to speed up device configuration with Setbox macros?
If you or someone in your team is responsible for configuring devices and does it often and in large quantities, we have something for you.
Our independent device configuration tool - Setbox - features Macros functionality that allows creating scenarios for the settings changes, saving them, and then re-applying as many times to as many devices as necessary.
Check the details in the new KB article:
25 days later
[KB] How to send IoT/telematics data to Azure IoT?
Being the second most popular cloud platform, Microsoft Azure is the preferred option for many medium-sized and large enterprises already familiar with the other products in the Microsoft infrastructure.
Forward the telemetry data from flespi to the Azure IoT hub using a dedicated stream and feed it to a variety of services available in the Microsoft cloud.
Check the detailed guide here:
https://flespi.com/kb/flespi-to-azure
P.S. we also have a dedicated stream to Amazon AWS:
https://flespi.com/kb/flespi-to-aws
[KB] How to stream data from flespi to Ruhavik?
What if you could see any of your flespi devices in a sleek interface with a map, trip analysis, driving behavior, geofencing, and other useful functionality?
Well, you have it now. Just use the dedicated Ruhavik stream to forward the telemetry data from your trackers into the Ruhavik application and enjoy detailed reports, trips, notifications, and more.
Check the details here:
a month later
[KB] How to view and export track for the time range?
In the telematics world what you often need is a track — a collection of coordinate pairs (latitude and longitude) tied to the specific moments in time (timestamp), so it would be convenient to see them on the map and export them in various formats for analysis.
Learn the details here:
[KB] How to find all message parameters supported for a specific protocol?
Flespi supports dozens of popular protocols for tracking devices. The basic parameters are available everywhere, however, there are a lot of protocol-specific values that differ and may be present in certain protocols only (e.g. for BLE beacons, CAN data, special sensors, etc.). This is where the list of message parameters supported in each given protocol may come in handy.
Learn more here:
21 days later
[KB] How to stream data from flespi to Key Telematics?
Key Telematics is a SaaS platform for vendors of asset management and vehicle tracking solutions. If you want to feed the telemetry data from flespi to Key Telematics, follow the link for the detailed guide.
[KB] How to send IoT/telematics data to Google Cloud?
Forwarding the data from telematics/IoT devices into the Google cloud is a common task which, when complete, opens immense opportunities for handling the data in the Google Cloud ecosystem. Once the data from your device(s) appears in flespi, sending it to Google services is fast and straightforward.
20 days later
[KB] How to integrate a new piece of equipment into flespi?
The sequence of actions to follow when you want your device to be supported by the flespi platform.
20 days later
[KB] How to ask questions in the flespi chat?
With the purpose of optimizing time and efforts (both yours and ours), we have put together recommendations on asking the right questions in our support chat to get comprehensive and useful answers fast.
8 days later
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[KB] Analytics basics
We've put together a comprehensive guide on the key concepts and principles of the flespi analytics engine so that you can follow it section by section and get hands-on experience with calculators.
11 days later
[KB] How to point a tracker to the flespi channel?
A very basic article explaining how to configure your device to send data to the flespi platform - a step you cannot do without.
3 months later
[KB] How to send commands to the device connected to flespi via API
Here's a detailed technical guide on how to send commands to devices via REST API.
In real-time or to the commands queue.
With curls and schemas.
With specific request methods and expected results.
Follow the steps here:
15 days later
Commands & settings — ways to manage your devices
The concepts of commands and settings are related, yet they are not quite the same and have important distinctions.
We put together a new KB article to help you clearly understand the key differences between the two.
Read the full text here:
13 days later
[KB] Ruptela device data via API
If you rely on GPS trackers from Ruptela in your projects, flespi provides you with a super-convenient API to consume the parsed messages from your solution.
Check the step-by-step instructions here:
a month later
[KB] How to use REST selectors effectively?
Since flespi is a universal telematics API used in a variety of versatile projects, we try to make it maximally flexible in terms of API methods and their configuration.
In this small KB article, we show how REST API selectors when used properly can make operations more efficient.
a month later
[KB] Plugins articles updated
After the recent changes in plugins, we've updated the existing and added new KB articles related to plugins to reflect the current situation:
https://flespi.com/kb?tag[]=plugins
In particular, we now have a dedicated article for each plugin type:
- add static parameters to the message
- add calculated parameters to the message
- delete parameters from the message
- script custom parsing logic
15 days later
[KB] How to make your device messages GDPR-compliant using plugins?
Using flespi plugins to remove the location data from telemetry messages according to the specified schedule.
11 days later
[KB] How to move devices from account to subaccount?
A method to change the owner of the registered flespi device.
https://flespi.com/kb/move-device-from-account-to-subaccount
