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Thermometer skills

The AEA thermometer skills demonstrate an interaction between two AEAs, one purchasing temperature data from the other.

  • The provider of thermometer data (the thermometer).
  • The buyer of thermometer data (the thermometer_client).

Discussion

This demo aims to demonstrate how to create a very simple AEA with the usage of the AEA framework and a thermometer sensor. The thermometer AEA will read data from the sensor each time a client requests the data and will deliver it to the client upon payment. To keep the demo simple, we avoided the usage of a database since this would increase the complexity. As a result, the AEA can provide only one reading from the sensor. This demo does not utilise a smart contract. As a result, the ledger interaction is only for completing a transaction.

Communication

This diagram shows the communication between the various entities as data is successfully sold by the thermometer AEA to the client AEA.

sequenceDiagram participant Search participant Client_AEA participant Thermometer_AEA participant Blockchain activate Client_AEA activate Search activate Thermometer_AEA activate Blockchain Thermometer_AEA->>Search: register_service Client_AEA->>Search: search Search-->>Client_AEA: list_of_agents Client_AEA->>Thermometer_AEA: call_for_proposal Thermometer_AEA->>Client_AEA: propose Client_AEA->>Thermometer_AEA: accept Thermometer_AEA->>Client_AEA: match_accept Client_AEA->>Blockchain: transfer_funds Client_AEA->>Thermometer_AEA: send_transaction_hash Thermometer_AEA->>Blockchain: check_transaction_status Thermometer_AEA->>Client_AEA: send_data deactivate Client_AEA deactivate Search deactivate Thermometer_AEA deactivate Blockchain


Option 1: AEA Manager approach

Follow this approach when using the AEA Manager Desktop app. Otherwise, skip and follow the CLI approach below.

Preparation instructions

Install the AEA Manager.

Demo instructions

The following steps assume you have launched the AEA Manager Desktop app.

  1. Add a new AEA called my_thermometer_aea with public id fetchai/thermometer_aea:0.30.0.

  2. Add another new AEA called my_thermometer_client with public id fetchai/thermometer_client:0.31.0.

  3. Copy the address from the my_thermometer_client into your clip board. Then go to the Dorado block explorer and request some test tokens via Get Funds.

  4. Run the my_thermometer_aea AEA. Navigate to its logs and copy the multiaddress displayed.

  5. Navigate to the settings of the my_thermometer_client and under components > connection > fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.22.0 update as follows (make sure to replace the placeholder with the multiaddress): 

    {
  "delegate_uri": "127.0.0.1:11001",
  "entry_peers": ["REPLACE_WITH_MULTI_ADDRESS_HERE"],
  "local_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001",
  "log_file": "libp2p_node.log",
  "public_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001"
}

  6. Run the my_thermometer_client.

In the AEA's logs, you should see the agent trading successfully.

Option 2: CLI approach

Follow this approach when using the aea CLI.

Preparation instructions

Dependencies

Follow the Preliminaries and Installation sections from the AEA quick start.

Demo instructions

A demo to run the thermometer scenario with a true ledger transaction This demo assumes the buyer trusts the seller AEA to send the data upon successful payment.

Create thermometer AEA

First, fetch the thermometer AEA: 

aea fetch fetchai/thermometer_aea:0.30.0 --alias my_thermometer_aea
cd my_thermometer_aea
aea install
aea build

Alternatively, create from scratch.

The following steps create the thermometer AEA from scratch: 

aea create my_thermometer_aea
cd my_thermometer_aea
aea add connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.26.0
aea add connection fetchai/soef:0.27.0
aea add connection fetchai/ledger:0.20.0
aea add skill fetchai/thermometer:0.27.0
aea install
aea build
aea config set agent.default_connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.26.0
aea config set --type dict agent.default_routing \
'{
  "fetchai/ledger_api:1.1.0": "fetchai/ledger:0.20.0",
  "fetchai/oef_search:1.1.0": "fetchai/soef:0.27.0"
}'

Create thermometer client

Then, fetch the thermometer client AEA: 

aea fetch fetchai/thermometer_client:0.31.0 --alias my_thermometer_client
cd my_thermometer_client
aea install
aea build

Alternatively, create from scratch.

The following steps create the thermometer client from scratch: 

aea create my_thermometer_client
cd my_thermometer_client
aea add connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.26.0
aea add connection fetchai/soef:0.27.0
aea add connection fetchai/ledger:0.20.0
aea add skill fetchai/thermometer_client:0.26.0
aea install
aea build
aea config set agent.default_connection fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.26.0
aea config set --type dict agent.default_routing \
'{
  "fetchai/ledger_api:1.1.0": "fetchai/ledger:0.20.0",
  "fetchai/oef_search:1.1.0": "fetchai/soef:0.27.0"
}'

Add keys for the thermometer AEA

First, create the private key for the thermometer AEA based on the network you want to transact. To generate and add a private-public key pair for Fetch.ai Dorado use: 

aea generate-key fetchai
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_private_key.txt

Next, create a private key used to secure the AEA's communications: 

aea generate-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt --connection

Finally, certify the key for use by the connections that request that: 

aea issue-certificates

Add keys and generate wealth for the thermometer client AEA

The thermometer client needs to have some wealth to purchase the thermometer information.

First, create the private key for the thermometer client AEA based on the network you want to transact. To generate and add a private-public key pair for Fetch.ai use: 

aea generate-key fetchai
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_private_key.txt

Then, create some wealth for your thermometer client based on the network you want to transact with. On the Fetch.ai testnet network: 

aea generate-wealth fetchai

Next, create a private key used to secure the AEA's communications: 

aea generate-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt
aea add-key fetchai fetchai_connection_private_key.txt --connection

Finally, certify the key for use by the connections that request that: 

aea issue-certificates

Run both AEAs

Run both AEAs from their respective terminals.

First, run the thermometer AEA:

aea run

Once you see a message of the form To join its network use multiaddr 'SOME_ADDRESS' take note of the address. (Alternatively, use aea get-multiaddress fetchai -c -i fetchai/p2p_libp2p:0.26.0 -u public_uri to retrieve the address.) This is the entry peer address for the local agent communication network created by the thermometer AEA.

Then, in the thermometer client, run this command (replace SOME_ADDRESS with the correct value as described above): 

aea config set --type dict vendor.fetchai.connections.p2p_libp2p.config \
'{
  "delegate_uri": "127.0.0.1:11001",
  "entry_peers": ["SOME_ADDRESS"],
  "local_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001",
  "log_file": "libp2p_node.log",
  "public_uri": "127.0.0.1:9001"
}'
This allows the thermometer client to connect to the same local agent communication network as the thermometer AEA.

Then run the thermometer client AEA: 

aea run

You can see that the AEAs find each other, negotiate and eventually trade.

Cleaning up

When you're done, go up a level and delete the AEAs.

cd ..
aea delete my_thermometer_aea
aea delete my_thermometer_client


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