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DaaS (Decoder as a Service)

Run public code snippets from your Plugin or UbiFunction

- This feature is in beta -

The LoRaWAN ecosystem continues to grow, and so does the length of the decoders needed to transform a binary or base64 payloads, into friendly JSON ones.
Copy-pasting such decoders can get confusing for two reasones:
  • Some of them have hundreds of lines of code - and continue to grow as more sensors and features are added to the devices.
  • Most -if not all- LoRaWAN vendors offer their decoders in NodeJS, making them uncompatible if you're developing your functions in Python.
Because of this, we created a public DaaS (Decoder as a Service) endpoint:
Ubidots Decoding as a Service endpoint
To make use of it, make a POST request to the following:

URL

HTTP Method
URL
POST
https://functions.ubidots.com/pub/decode/custom

Headers

Header
Value
Content-Type
application/json
x-auth-token
<your-ubidots-token>

Body

Parameter
Description
Example
url
The public URL containing the code you wish to execute. Expects a raw text. When using Github, please set the URL to raw text mode.
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seeed-Solution/TTN-Payload-Decoder/master/decoder_new-v3.js"
payload
JSON payload, containing the arguments expected by the public URL
{
"fPort": 1, "bytes":"SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ="
}
function
The internal function inside the public URL code, that you wish to target with the given payload
"decodeUplink"

Example

POST https://functions.ubidots.com/pub/decode/custom
"Content-Type": "application/json"
"x-auth-token": "BBFF-123456789"
{
"url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Seeed-Solution/TTN-Payload-Decoder/master/decoder_new-v3.js",
"payload": {
"fPort": 1,
"bytes": "SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ="
},
"function": "decodeUplink"
}