Remote Data Post Transmit¶

Note: This transmit is deprecated and no longer used. To send data to Sight Machine, please use RDPv3 instead.

A remotedatapost data transmit transfers data to the Sight Machine cloud. This plugin works alongside with the sight_machine_cloud env variables, sharing the API_key, API_key_ID, and base_url properties.

Example:

If we want to upload our records to our Sight Machine cloud, https://cloudyday.sightmachine.io, our configuration will look something like this:

{
    "data_transmit": [
        {
            "transmit_name": "tiger_moth"
        }
    ]
}

Configuration:

Required and optional properties that can be configured for a Remote Data Post (RDPv2) transmit.

transmit_name: ID for the transmit. It must be unique.
transmit_type: Method to use in transmitting records. The default type is remotedatapost.
filter_stream: A list of streams that will use the transmit. Each stream can either be * (all) or asset:stream.
base_url: URL of your Service Environment (e.g. https://my-environment.sightmachine.io). If this option is omitted, then the base_url configured in the sight_machine_cloud env variables will be used.
API_key: API key to allow for transmitting data to the Sight Machine cloud. If this option is omitted, then the value in the sight_machine_cloud env variables is used instead.
API_key_ID: API key ID to allow for transmitting data to the Sight Machine cloud. If this option is omitted then the value in the sight_machine_cloud env variables is used instead.
timeout: Number of seconds to wait until timing out.
poll_interval: Maximum number of seconds to wait between RDPv2 requests.
max_request_records: Maximum number of records to send in a single RDPv2 request.
max_request_size_bytes: Maximum number of bytes allowed in a single request. Regardless of this size, it is capped at 4 MB.

Note:

By supplying the optional properties, base_url, API_key, and API_key_ID, in the transmit section, you can upload to a different Sight Machine cloud instance than the one specified in the sight_machine_cloud env variables.

For example, if we wanted to upload records from the bathhouse:water stream to a specific Sight Machine cloud instance, https://yubaba.sightmachine.io, our configuration would look something like this:

{
    "data_transmit": [
        {
            "transmit_name": "sen",
            "filter_stream": [
                "bathhouse:water"
            ],
            "base_url": "https://yubaba.sightmachine.io",
            "API_key": "Spirited_Away",
            "API_key_ID": "Haku"
        }
    ]
}

Warning:

This plugin is very sensitive to upload bandwidth: if it can’t upload a payload completely within the timeout, it will abort the connection and try again. You may need to increase the timeout from the default of two minutes. For example:

{
    "transmit_name": "SightMachine",
    "transmit_type": "remotedatapost"
    "filter_stream": ["*"],
    "timeout": 300
}