Running the agent

In the previous step we registered a new instance and named it (in the example we used 'BuildingA' as the name).

Now lets go back to the agent and run it.

Running the agent

The next step is to configure the Lucy server that this connector needs to talk to.

The Lucy server configuration has 3 parts:

1. The url of the Lucy instance you are trying to connect to

2. An api key to let you connect to it

3. The name of the connector instance that this connector agent represents.

Also - recall, each instance of a connector has its own unique name

All 3 get combined into a single value called an 'Installation Key'.

The format of the key is:

<url>|<apikey>|<instance name>

Example:

https://demo.lucyhq.com|SC:demo:12345|BuildingA

You can get an API Key by going to the Lucy Dashboard -> Settings -> API Key

The connector is configured using the LucyConnector.fromInstallationKey() function which you can see in the above code. Its reading the installation key from an environment variable called LUCY_CONNECTOR_KEY

So we just need to set that environment variable and run the program to launch the agent and connect it to our Lucy server on the cloud.

Loading from an environment variable is just a convention - you can change the code to make it load from a file or somewhere else.

Lets run our program:

$ export LUCY_CONNECTOR_KEY="https://demo.lucyhq.com|SC:demo:12345|BuildingA"
$ node src/index.js

Once you run your program you can see some messages in the console indicating that it has connected. The 'Connector initialized' message should appear.

Information: WebSocket connected to ws://demo.lucyhq.com/globalHub.
Heart Beat:  [ { Status: 'Ok- Ping sent' } ]
Connector initialized
Heart Beat:  [ { Status: 'Ok- Ping sent' } ]