Run liota on an esp8266/esp32 about liota HOT 7 OPEN

We haven't tested Liota on "esp8266" but you can surely give a try.

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You can give a try and let us know if something doesn't work will try to provide the necessary help.

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Would love to, but since I'm currently completely new to liota, I think that's gonna be very tough for me.

Last month I was at VMworld but was unable to attend the Building and Monitoring IoT with Liota and Wavefront [CODE5546U]. :( Otherwise I would now have known more about it, at least how to do it on a rasppi so it would be easier to "reproduce" it on one of my esp8266's. (I don't own a rasppi)

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I guess the first step is the most basic "problem":

In general, liota can be installed:
$ git clone https://github.com/vmware/liota.git
$ cd liota/
$ python setup.py install

On an esp8266 with Python, there's nothing else than... Python. No linux, no bash, no '$', no git, nothing...

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Just to let you know, I have decided not to use an esp8266 but the big(ger) brother esp32.
So now I ordered a Chinese esp32, which should arrive in a couple of weeks from now.

I think most liota code is OS independent / python-only, except for some .sh scripts. I have found:

Install:

  $ cd liota/
  $ python setup.py install

Setup:

  $ LIOTA_USER="non-root user" ./post-install-setup.sh

Autostart:
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Device discovery:

sudo ./liotapkg.sh load dev_disc/dev_disc sha1_checksum

use CmdMessage to check certain information (under /usr/lib/liota/packages/dev_disc)

sudo ./liota_devsim_pipe.sh list th

Execute:

$ sudo nohup python simulated_graphite_event_based.py &

Pieces like install, setup and execute should also be possible manually without bash, so probably only the liotapkg.sh and scripts like liota_devsim_pipe.sh cannot work.

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I've received my ordered esp32 module (one with extra psRAM and an sd-card slot).
Installed micropython from https://github.com/loboris/MicroPython_ESP32_psRAM_LoBo

Next step is to get the first requirements for liota fixed.
From here https://github.com/vmware/liota/blob/master/liota-lite/requirements.txt
I now have linux_metrics and paho able to import without errors, but aenum and pint are not easy on micropython. (and then I don't know if the imported linux_metrics and paho are good enough)

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This has been silent for some time...
I was struggling with the limitations of micropython, since that's the only python available for the esp modules.
Unfortunately I am still unable to get the required modules into micropython, basically just because the modules and/or their dependencies don't exist for micropython or because they are too different (limited).

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