Retrieving images from sql database and displaying in Mendix dashboard

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Hi I have two questions. I know that my first question is not related to Mendix but I would like to know if it is possible to do so.   May I know if it is possible to upload images from personal laptop, or from a camera, to an IOT platform called Thingspeak? I would like to send images to Thingspeak and retrieving the images from Thingspeak to display it in Mendix dashboard. I tried checking if it is possible but I dont seem to find any resources as of now. Hence, I tried coming up with this idea of uploading images to a sql database by using WAMPP server installed on my laptop. Mendix dashboard retrieves the image from WAMPP server by using “database connector” but I am not sure if its possible to do so. If it is possible, may I have some guidelines on how to approach this please?
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1- I think thingspeak has a REST and MQTT api, just not sure that they can handle 64 bit image or not. If yes, then you can read and retrieve with Mendix.

2- your way also fine, you also can try to push the image to s3, and in mendix you can use s3 connector to get the image.

cheers

 

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Hi

Thank you for the very fast reply. 

  1. I will take a look if is is able to handle 64 bit image or not. Thanks so much!
  2. I searched for s3 connector, however the thing I got is “Amazon s3 connector”. Is this the one you are talking about?However, I am not using Amazon as of now. Is “database connector” ok or must I use s3 connector? 

Sorry to bother you!

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The Amazon S3 connector is indeed for Amazon S3. When you want to upload files and make them available in your app, a lot of apps use S3 for that. I think Quang is advising you to use Amazon S3 for files, and not a database.

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Oh I see! I dont think my lecturers want to use amazon as they want to get the work done without paying anything. ( when I sign up I have to key in for credit card details and we have to pay if we want more storage). 

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