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Console CLI

Introduction

The Command Line Interface (CLI) allows you to interact with the Console API without making HTTP Requests, but instead via a command line prompt. It's ideal for mass provisioning or for integrating onto a production line.

In addition, it has certain high-level features for account setup like importing devices from other network providers.

Installation

Download a compiled release here for your appropriate platform.

API Key

You must activate a Console API key before using the CLI.

The first time you run the CLI, it will prompt you for this key. It will save the key in a local file: .helium-console-config.toml

Usage

Features

You can view the most current commands, features, and documentation by accessing the help menus. For example: helium-console-cli --help or helium-console-cli device --help.

Current high level features are:

  • create and delete devices records, using (app_eui, app_key, dev_eui) or UUID

  • list all device records

  • create and delete labels by UUID

  • create and delete device labels, by using (device_uuid, label_uuid)

  • import devices from The Things Network (TTN\

    )

Examples

Let's create a device:

helium-console-cli device create 000A000100000046 CB67C92DD5898D07872224202DED7E76 DEADBEEF23F23454 foo

You'll get a response with the full record of this new device:

Device {
    app_eui: "000A000100000046",
    app_key: "CB67C92DD5898D07872224202DED7E76",
    dev_eui: "DEADBEEF23F23454",
    id: "03f5967a-7c79-42a2-bd5f-6e51015e73e3",
    name: "foo",
    organization_id: "07273bc4-4bc9-44ec-b4d5-ad320f162e15",
    oui: 1,
}

You can view this device again by either (app_eui, app_key, dev_eui) or by id/uuid. For example:

helium-console-cli device get 000A000100000046 CB67C92DD5898D07872224202DED7E76 DEADBEEF23F23454

or

helium-console-cli device get-by-id 03f5967a-7c79-42a2-bd5f-6e51015e73e3

These commands will return the same record as above.

Similarly, you may delete the device:

helium-console-cli device delete 000A000100000046 CB67C92DD5898D07872224202DED7E76 DEADBEEF23F23454

or

helium-console-cli device delete-by-id 03f5967a-7c79-42a2-bd5f-6e51015e73e3

Finally, at any time, you may list all your devices:

helium-console-cli device list

Which will return an array of all your devices:

[
    Device {
        app_eui: "000A000100000046",
        app_key: "CB67C92DD5898D07872224202DED7E76",
        dev_eui: "DEADBEEF23F23454",
        id: "03f5967a-7c79-42a2-bd5f-6e51015e73e3",
        name: "foo",
        organization_id: "07273bc4-4bc9-44ec-b4d5-ad320f162e15",
        oui: 1,
    }
]

TTN Import

To start an import session, use the ttn import command:

helium-console-cli ttn import

You will be prompted for a ttnctl access code, which you can generate by clicking on ttnctl access code here. This single-use access code is valid for 5 minutes. During this time the CLI may use the code to request an OAuth2 token; it expires after 60 minutes.

The CLI's prompts will help you:

  • select to import from a single application or all applications (maximum 10, otherwise the OAuth2 token is "used up")
  • you may import all the devices at once or you may approve device import one by one.
  • you may use the TTN App ID as an automatic label for every device or you may approve device labelling one by one

The import process tolerates attempts to re-import or re-label the same device. As such, you may re-run the script to label devices with the TTN App ID even if you already imported the devices during a previous session.

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