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# Camel TinkerForge component

The Camel Tinkerforge component can be used to connect to the TinkerForge brick deamon.

## Maven dependency

Maven users should add the following dependency to their POM file:

io.rhiotcamel-tinkerforge${rhiot.version}

Avaliable for rhiot.version >= 0.1.1

## General URI format

```
tinkerforge:/<brickletType>/<uid>[?parameter=value][&parameter=value]
```

By default a connection is created to the brickd process running on localhost using no authentication. If you want to connect to another host use the following format:

```
tinkerforge://[username:password@]<host>[:port]/<brickletType>/<uid>[?parameter=value][&parameter=value]
```

The following values are currently supported as brickletType:

* ambientlight
* temperature
* lcd20x4
* humidity
* io4
* io16
* distance
* ledstrip
* motion
* soundintensity
* piezospeaker
* linearpoti
* rotarypoti
* dualrelay
* solidstaterelay

### Ambientlight

```
from("tinkerforge:/ambientlight/al1")
.to("log:default");
```

### Temperature

```
from("tinkerforge:/temperature/T1")
.to("log:default");
```

### Lcd20x4

The LCD 20x4 bricklet has a character based screen that can display 20 characters on 4 rows.

#### Optional URI Parameters

| Parameter | Default value | Description                         |
| --------- | ------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| line      | 0             | Show message on line 0              |
| position  | 0             | Show message starting at position 0 |

```
from("tinkerforge:/temperature/T1
.to("tinkerforge:/lcd20x4/lcd1?line=2&position=10
```

The parameters can be overridden for individual messages by settings them as headers on the exchange:

```
from("tinkerforge:/temperature/T1
.setHeader("line", constant("2"))
.setHeader("position", constant("10"))
.to("tinkerforge:/lcd20x4/lcd1");
```

### Humidity

```
 from("tinkerforge:/humidity/H1")
 .to("log:default");
```

### Io16

The IO16 bricklet has 2 ports (A and B) which both have 8 IO pins. Consuming and producing messages happens on port level. So only the port can be specified in the URI and the pin will be a header on the exchange.

#### Consuming:

```
from("tinkerforge:/io16/io9?ioport=a")
.to("log:default?showHeaders=true");
```

#### Producing

```
from("timer:default?period=2000")
.setHeader("iopin", constant(0))
.setHeader("duration", constant(1000))
.setBody(constant("on"))
.to("tinkerforge:/io16/io9?ioport=b");
```