Introduction

This guide will show you how to setup and run your fist Edge App on a local machine, and connect to MQTT on a local Futurehome Smarthub.

We will be creating a new project based on a template on Github.

Requirements

• Golang installed
• Terminal program
• Code editor
• Smarthub (optional)
• Docker - for building debian package

Setup new project template

Download template

1. First we will clone the template from Github. Go to https://github.com/thingsplex/ThingsPlexServiceTemplate and copy the link.

   

2. Clone the repository using git clone to your desired location, for example:

   cd ~/development/futurehome/
   git clone <https://github.com/thingsplex/ThingsPlexServiceTemplate.git>
   # cd into template folder
   cd ThingsPlexServiceTemplate
   

Generate new project

In the ThingsPlexServiceTemplate directory you will find a script called [generate-app.sh](<http://generate-app.sh>) . We will use this script to generate a new app. We will call the new app for demo_app

./generate-app.sh demo_app

The script will now generate a new project directory with all the files we need.