This guide connects a Kunbus Revolution Pi (RevPi) to Thinger.io and makes its local web tools, PiCtory and Node-RED, available from the console. The RevPi is an industrial PC for DIN rail built on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, and it runs a Raspberry Pi OS image, so it connects with the standard Linux client.

Revolution Pi Connect SE

Before you start

• A Thinger.io account. YOUR_SERVER is iot.thinger.io on the free Cloud account, or the hostname of your private instance.
• A RevPi with network access and a shell on it (SSH or a local console).

Steps

1. Connect the RevPi with the Linux client

   Create an IOTMP device for the RevPi and install the Linux client on it, as a service, following Linux. The device shows as connected in Devices when the client starts.

2. Open its terminal

   The Linux client gives the device a terminal and a file browser with no extra setup. Open the device and choose Terminal in its menu to get a shell on the RevPi. See Remote tools.

3. Create a product for your RevPi units

   Go to Products and create a product for your RevPi units, then assign the device to it. The product holds the services of the next step, so every RevPi of the product gets them. See Products.

4. Add PiCtory and Node-RED as services

   PiCtory, the configuration tool of the RevPi, and Node-RED, which the RevPi includes with the node-red-contrib-revpi-nodes nodes to read and write its I/O, are web applications that run on the RevPi itself. Expose them as product services: open the product, go to Services and click Add for each one.

   Field	PiCtory	Node-RED
   Service Identifier	pictory	node_red
   Service Type	Web Service	Web Service
   Target Hostname	127.0.0.1	127.0.0.1
   Target Port	41080	1880
   SSL/TLS	Off	Off
   Name (on Settings)	PiCtory	Node-RED

   127.0.0.1 is the RevPi itself. The ports are those of a standard RevPi image; if you changed them, use yours.

   Console

   Fill in the fields of the table in the New Service dialog and click Create.

   

   Web Service for PiCtory

   API

   YOUR_USER is your username, YOUR_TOKEN an access token of your account, and revpi the ID of the product.

   PUT/v1/users/{user}/products/{product}/services/{service}API reference

   curl -X PUT "https://YOUR_SERVER/v1/users/YOUR_USER/products/revpi/services/node_red" \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "type": "web",
       "name": "Node-RED",
       "enabled": true,
       "target": { "address": "127.0.0.1", "port": 1880, "secure": false }
     }'

   AI

   Ask your AI agent

   Add two web services to the product revpi: PiCtory on port 41080 and Node-RED on port 1880 of each device.

   The agent uses thinger_resource_create with the product_service type. See MCP tools.

Result

The RevPi shows as connected in Devices. Its menu has Terminal, Explorer and two more entries, PiCtory and Node-RED, which open those tools inside the console without opening any port of the RevPi to the internet.

Next steps

LinuxBuild the Thinger.io IOTMP client for Linux, connect a Raspberry Pi or any Linux computer, and run it as a service with remote terminal and files.ServicesReach the web interfaces and remote desktops of the devices of a product from the console, through the device connection, without opening ports.Remote toolsOpen a shell, browse files and read the log of a connected device from the Thinger.io console, without VPNs or open ports.