Questions tagged [aws-iot]
For questions about Amazon's AWS IoT platform, including technical problems and security/reliability questions. Do not use this tag for general questions about IoT!
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Do I need different certificates for every thing?
I'm learning AWS and I created a new thing with the required certificates to access it via MQTT:
root-CA.crt
.private.key
.cert.pem
If I'm not wrong the root-CA.crt file will be the same for all the ...
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Why some IoT devices cannot connect to MQTT broker
We have an IoT company and we shipped more than 10.000 products around the world. We have some of our customers (around 5%) that cannot connect their product to MQTT.
Our infrastructure is really easy....
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Best way to store the data received from aws iot core
What I am trying to achieve is that I have an Arduino base which periodically uploads data to AWS IoT-Core. But I am looking for a way to store that data and make it accessible to my web application ...
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Connect an esp32 with AWS MQTT with SIM800L
I am are trying to use a sim800L module to connect an esp32 running Arduino to AWS MQTT. I need to connect and publish and subscribe to topics. I am doing this successfully via wifi. Not via the ...
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IoT Dashboard for customers (data comes from Arduino)
I push my sensor readings from product A, B, C, D to an online cloud provider.
Then my customer (call him E) needs to access all these sensor readings and make a dashboard for his customer X, Y Z.
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Using mosquitto_pub WITH mosquitto_sub on AWS IoT thing is not working
Strange problem when trying to interact with an AWS IoT thing using the mosquitto CLI clients:
mosquitto_pub works as I can see the incoming message in the AWS IoT Test console.
mosquitto_sub works ...
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How to connect the bridge node of painlessmesh to AWS IoT Core to publish message via MQTT?
Background:
I am trying to work with two ESP8266 nodes using the painless mesh. Until now the painless mesh worked fine. At next level i made one of the node as bridge or root node. My intention here ...
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wireless moisture data transmission
i am mainly from software background with very very basic level of electronics/microcontroller knowledge.
i recently did a small iot project for moisture/temp detection following this tutorial : https:...
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What is Shoulder Tap in IOT?
I am very new to IOT (primarily in Connected Cars segment) and came across the terms like: Shoulder Tap , Using SMS to awake device. I did search online, but didn't get proper information.
Can ...
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Benefits of Greengrass over IoT SDK [closed]
What are the benefits of using the Greengrass vs the Node SDK package?
We have a software stack happily interacting with IoT Core services (running on buildroot) using the Node SDK. I'm trying to ...
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How to add the feature of adding wifi device or iot device in an app?
I created an application on dyo appypie platform . The platform doesnt have the feature to add any wifi or iot device . I am having conversation with developer team , cause its dyo platform they cant ...
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Can I use ESP32 as a proxy to connect BLE device to AWS IoT cloud? [closed]
Reading AWS IoT documentation I see that the proxy could only be an Android or iOS device.
To be more precise I’d like to publish from BLE (nRF52840) To AWS IoT using MQTT, but this device doesn’t ...
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What are the best practises AWS IoT thing registration process?
What are the best practises AWS IoT thing registration process?
How can the process of making devices available to the users be streamlined? I need to know how can this be done in a viable way. ...
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OTA updates with AWS IoT Core
I'm trying to build a device on AWS IoT platform with OTA updates. The device is based on Raspberry Pi (or similar), has half a dozen sensors, runs some inference on the collected data, and can ...
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BLE devices with AWS IOT gateway
I am building a setup for 1-10 wearable sensors (all in range) to send data over BLE to:
co-located android device app for each sensor
AWS EC2 for further processing and web app serving. a dashboard ...
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Why one should choose GraphQL instead of MQTT for an IOT project?
Just got assigned to the IoT Project. It is regarding a simple IoT cellular device that pretty much acts as a garage door control. The device can be called using the phone and then opens the gate, ...
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Cloud mqtt broker
I am completely new to the world of IoT and I want some recommendations. I want to build a home automation system that is accessible from anywhere in the world using internet. The ultimate goal is the ...
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Discovering IOT Devices In Network Logs [closed]
How we can discover IoT Devices used within a network in Firewall Logs?.
One of the way of discovering IOT devices is through mac address, but mac address is not available in log file. I have to work ...
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AWS lambda capture IoT thing creation event
I need to perform some additional operation when new thing created in AWS IOT , to accomplish this requirement needed to trigger a Lambda function upon new thing creation event.
I followed AWS lambda ...
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Does server running on local host constitute IoT? [closed]
I have created a network, using mobile hotspot (without internet connectivity), between microcontroller and pc.(intranetwork) The designed server right now works on the local host. Will this be ...
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Can I run a Greengrass Core and an IoT Device on the same machine?
We are trying to create a system that reads and performs some computation on data coming in via serial port (from a CAN network) and send the results to the cloud. I have been looking into AWS ...
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Securing first connection of non provisioned IoT device
Assumptions
The IoT Device is actually a software installable on supported operating system, e.g. Windows or Linux. Lets named it Software-Device.
The Software-Device is available to download by ...
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Send sensor data over internet to a server [closed]
I had a project planned on monitoring sensors. I wanted to read sensor data
over the internet. How should I proceed with the setup?
Any help is appreciated.
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How to use of Aws IoT certificate, access key and secret key in Swift?
I am new to Swift as well as to AWS-IoT.
After reading a tons of doc, I finally decide to post a question for a simple answer.
I am working on a project where I have to interact with "Things".
I ...
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The Things Network AWS IoT integration
I have followed the tutorial for the AWS integration but cannot get the MQTT messages to display in the AWS IoT Core. I assume bridging is not working since I can get the messages in an external ...
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Dash Button indicator Light
I have some Amazon Dash buttons that I want to use for multiple different scenarios, I don't know quite what yet, but I am unable to find a good way to make the indicator light turn green after I have ...
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greengrass ggc_user changeable? [closed]
While installing AWS IoT Greengrass for Raspberry Pi, there is a need to create ggc_user & ggc_group as mentioned in Greengrass developer guide step 9:
sudo adduser --system ggc_user
sudo ...
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Provisioning “things” on AWS IoT without certificates confusion
I am new to AWS IoT. I wish to use AWS IoT's feature called JITP (Just In Time Provisioning) to provision my gateways automatically. I am using BeagleBone boards as device gateways.
I followed the ...
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Alexa - Confirm AMAZON.Number slots
I have an intent to request a bank account info by it's number. I tried with only one slot of AMAZON.Number but if the account number is ***012345, Alexa understand this as ***012337 (last two digits ...
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Connect IoT devices to AWS
I have a Moxa I/O Remote connected to a Raspberry Pi running some scripts through pymodbus. I am using MQTT to publish & receive changes/requests in the I/O remote to a web service.
The idea is ...
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Alexa - call web API in localhost from AWS Lambda Console
I have my Alexa's lambda function on AWS Lambda Console. There I call a web API I created.
If I call my web API on Visual Studio Code, it works great. But if I use Alexa Developer Console to call my ...
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Scalable Arduino ESP32 IoT project ( with lots of users )
I'm planning to create a Arduino device that measures distance, and sends the data to AWS IOT via WIFI . After that i want to see the measurements on an Android or iphone App.
How can i make my idea ...
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AWS IoT certificate rejection
I've been trying to configure AWS IoT to communicate over MQTT using TLS for days on a D1 Mini board and have been running into a road block with authentication.
I've used several AWS IoT Arduino ...
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AWS Greengrass Raspberry Pi scanning for Bluetooth LE
I have a AWS Greengrass setup where I would like to have a Raspberry Pi constantly scanning for BLE devices and if anything is found publish a message via MQTT.
I've gotten the script to work locally ...
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How long should a FreeRTOS task be delayed in each loop?
I'm working on an AWS IoT project where the MQTT routines, callback lambdas and kind of everything else apart from initialisation are inside a task created by xTaskCreatePinnedToCore().
This task ...
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How do I build a web application using AWS IoT connecting to a factory floor?
I want to build a web application using aws Iot.
I build SCADA systems for different companies.
I have a modbus rtu master(raspi) connected to many slaves on a factory floor.
Modbus master is ...
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Connect sx1272 module to a Dragino Gateway
I am new to Lora technology. I am using a sx1272 Lora Module and I am trying to send and receive data to a Dragino Gateway. The problem is the sx1272 and Dragino use two different libraries and hence ...
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First steps to learn IoT with watering plants project [closed]
I am an experienced developper, and I want to learn IoT beginning with a small project. Automatic Watering the plants of my house.
Here are the requirements:
The project is for learning purpose
It ...
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Creating nested IoT field gateways with Azure and AWS
From what I have read and understood from their documentation is that only single layer IoT hierarchies can be maintained with either of their gateways. That is a field gateway(sort of like a smart ...
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Is it possible to implement AWS free RTOS on nrf51822?
Is it possible to implement AWS RTOS on nrf51822? If not what is the alternative solution for connecting nrf51822 to IoT cloud?
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MQTT with TLS for TI CC3200 fails with 'Bad CA file' error
This topic seems to pop up everywhere but, without a conclusion as to how to get MQTT-TLS for CC3200 running. So, here goes one more.
Goal
Connect TI CC3200 board to AWS IoT broker via TLS.
Steps
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Which is the right way to use AWS-IoT for big quantities of devices?
I'm studying AWS IoT for a big project and I want to understand more about this amazing service, so here I am with a question for you.
Each example inside the documentation of AWS IoT talks about one ...
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Subscibe to specific device with AWS or Azure IoT services
There are 1,000 IoT devices which need to send data to the cloud each second. There is a mobile app. The mobile app user can see messages from a single device at a time only. Is there any simple (...
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Deploy Scripts to AWS-Greengrass without AWS-Lambda
Is it possible to deploy to Greengrass from another source besides Lambda?
Could I possibly connect to AWS-Greengrass with a client like MQTT.fx and deploy scripts to it?
I have tried several times ...
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Call AWS Lambda https end point from AWS IoT rules Engine
We have an existing ASP.Net Core API that we deployed in AWS Lambda. We were able to access the https verbs using AWS Serverless URL
Now we would like to access a specific https end point through AWS ...
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How to handle AWS IoT with a Raspberry Pi to connect to my Node.js API?
I created an API in Node.js to connect my iOS app to my database.
In my app, I have a button to start an action which will be connected to my Raspberry Pi. This action will happened after ...
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My thing connected to AWS IoT but it does not publish messages
This question is related to this one after you helped me to fix my mistake I have connected to Eclipse broker, it worked just fine, connection and publishing, then I switched to AWS IoT broker with ...
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Using AWS Lambda function to create a monitoring website for IoT devices [closed]
I want to create a web site to monitor my IoT devices, so I went through many tutorials to achieve that.
The most common way that is used in the tutorials is writing to DynamoDB from IoT then using ...
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How to link device with user?
I'm trying to learn IoT development using an Arduino and Amazon's menu of services—Alexa Skill Kit, AWS Lambda, and AWS IoT. I've been able to get come a long way, but when I think about implementing ...
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Cannot publish AWS IoT messages from Raspberry Pi
I run a simple publish message from a Raspberry Pi. It seems that my device is connected to AWS IoT, but the message is not publishing and the on_connect and on_publish methods are not invoking.
Can ...
