Questions tagged [microsoft-windows-iot]

For questions about Windows 10 IoT Core and Enterprise, a version of Windows optimized for smaller devices with or without a display, and that runs on both ARM and x86/x64 devices.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
14 votes
1 answer
1k views

How does an Azure IoT Hub interact with Embedded/IoT devices?

I am working on the Azure IoT platform, and I understand how devices send data to the IoT hub (if I am not wrong, It is just web service call or something similar to that). But I wonder how the IoT ...
Shri's user avatar
  • 341
10 votes
2 answers
19k views

Windows 10 IoT on "regular" PC?

Is it possible to install and run Windows 10 IoT on an "regular" workstation/device/PC? With this I'm talking about an old laptop which I want to use as an IoT Device just running a website (or maybe ...
flor1an's user avatar
  • 211
8 votes
2 answers
502 views

What will happen if I use Class 4 SD card, instead of recommended Class 10 for Intel Galileo?

I could not find any relevant information on this, sites just recommended class 10. I want to know if it is okay to use Class 4, 8 GB SD card, for making a bootable Linux drive for Intel Galileo, or ...
nj2237's user avatar
  • 269
8 votes
1 answer
495 views

WiFi Mesh on Windows IoT core

I have a project where I need to create a Wi-Fi mesh network of nodes sharing a distributed mesh database that requires relatively quick search access on each node. I was initially thinking of running ...
Gineer's user avatar
  • 399
7 votes
1 answer
272 views

Creating a Tor 'hidden service' on Windows IoT Core

The Background I'm prototyping some basic home automation software using Windows IoT Core and Azure. I have built a Windows Universal Application that sends data to a Web App hosted in Azure via Web ...
Alex Small's user avatar
7 votes
2 answers
2k views

SSH to Raspberry with Windows 10 IoT

I set up a Raspberry Pi 3b with Windows 10 IoT to try it out. In the past I had Linux running and I would just ssh connect to it. However when trying to ssh from powershell to the Windows 10 IoT it ...
findusl's user avatar
  • 213
6 votes
1 answer
1k views

Windows 10 IoT Core will not install onto my SD card / Raspberry Pi 3

I tried to install Windows 10 IoT Core onto my SD card using Microsoft's IoT Dashboard. I fill out all of the fields then it says: Downloading Windows IoT Core Download Complete. Then it says: ...
Chuckinator's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
326 views

DragonBoard 410c—Create custom Windows 10 IoT Core image

After reading the MSDN docs about creating a custom Image for Windows 10 IoT Core, I'm totally overwhelmed. I installed the required tools, got the BSP for the DragonBoard 410c and started step by ...
andy's user avatar
  • 161
6 votes
0 answers
422 views

Microsoft Edge Smart Mirror on Raspberry Pi 3

I've been reading this blog about building a magic mirror with Windows IoT: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/05/31/magic-mirror-hosted-web-app/ Now, with the Pi setup, a Windows 7 machine, ...
Matt W's user avatar
  • 171
5 votes
2 answers
526 views

Is it okay to use the 4 pin USB TTL cable instead of the recommended 6 pin USB TTL cable for Intel Galileo?

I have only the 4 pin USB TTL cable which has the Rx, Tx, Vcc and GND pins. The 6 pin includes the CTS and RTS pins also, and is specified for use with Intel Galileo board. My question is if I can ...
nj2237's user avatar
  • 269
3 votes
1 answer
547 views

How to simulate an IoT device or a network of IoT devices without hardware?

Hey IoT stack community! I want to ask how I can simulate an IoT device or a network of IoT devices, if i don't have a single piece of hardware? Is this possible in any way at all? To give you some ...
Muhammad Yasir's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
135 views

Windows IOT cmd - Delete unplugged (hidden) Ethernet adapters

In Windows IOT - is there an option via command line to delete unplugged (hidden) Ethernet adapters? My issue is, when I am plug in an USB-TO-ETHERNET device adapter, it is have the name, lets say, "...
Tamir Adler's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
3k views

Why is access denied when using the Unified Write Filter on Windows 10 IoT?

I'm using Windows 10 Enterprise IoT 64-bit and am trying to run the following command in the command prompt: uwfmgr.exe get-config The result is always "The command failed (Access is denied.)." ...
Ben's user avatar
  • 39
3 votes
1 answer
312 views

Installing drivers on Windows 10 IoT Core

First off, if this is the wrong Stackexchange site, please let me know so I can ask on the correct site. I'm contemplating installing Windows 10 IoT Core on my Raspberry Pi model 3B+ (so ARM platform)...
MindSwipe's user avatar
  • 131
3 votes
0 answers
50 views

Can IoT devices share their own capability/resources with another device?

Hello IoT Stack community ! I am sort of a beginner at IoT and looking for some guidance and help I am struggling to wrap my head around the following concept; Is it possible for IoT Device to share ...
Muhammad Yasir's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
50 views

NetBIOS visibility in Windows IoT Core

I am trying different approaches to creating a simple NAS using a Raspberry Pi and decided to give Windows IoT Core a try; considering that other computers in my network are primarily Windows and ...
bazzilic's user avatar
  • 131
3 votes
0 answers
104 views

IoT Dashboard for Raspberry Pi

I am currently experimenting with IoT using a Raspberry pi 3 and Windows IoT core. I have orded the sensors but in the meantime I am simulating them by using hard codes values. This is all for a ...
user9422677's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
131 views

Polling multiple GPIOs

I am trying to pull a few bytes per second from a microchip board attached to a temperature sensor and a photodiode, using Windows 10 IoT on a Dragonboard 410c. It seems like there's either ...
Somnacin7's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
99 views

Is Google Cloud Platform a broker?

I am trying to develop an windows form application on Visual Studio to control a home automation system. I am looking into the MQTT protocol to communicate between an application AMD hardware (using ...
IWherePajamasRegularly's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
41 views

Intrusion alert system for rugged environments iot, sensors [closed]

We are developing an IoT based intrusion alert system for the agricultural field. The plan is to have vibration sensors installed over the fence on the periphery of agricultural land Required ...
Praveen Raghuvanshi's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
104 views

How can I replace physical IoT devices during the application development? [closed]

I am about to develop a .NET application for IoT devices. In this moment I do not want to use physical devices, because I will run out of some precious time, but I do want to start building the ...
PianoSong's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
34 views

Adding Devices.Bindings to UWP Application

I am having some trouble adding a NuGet package to a UWP application. When I add the Device.Bindings package to my UWP application, I get thrown an error saying that Device.Bindings does not support ...
user9422677's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
100 views

How to change network to private on Windows IoT?

How do I change network to private in Windows IoT via IoT Dashboard's Device Portal? I know it's set to public because an app I develop has only private networking on and it's not connecting.
smsware's user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
0 answers
30 views

IoT logging ; tags vs meta data vs discover

I'm looking for some guidance on what to log for a pressure sensor data packet. There's a 100 values in "Pressure Data" and I'm currently printing out all the limits and calculated values used in the ...
Mark Edwards's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
728 views

Xamarin.Forms to ESP8266 Wifi moduleConnection [closed]

Am build new application for ESP8266. Then how can i connect my xamarin.forms application to esp8266 any reference and documentation for this. Already referred WIFIManager library in android many of ...
logeshpalani98's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
102 views

why TCP session is closed when A6/AI GSM connected to mqtt server immediately?

I use A6/AI GSM module to connect mqtt broker through cellular network. it can open tcp session to server but the session terminate immediately. and gsm try to open tcp session again and session ...
Mahmoud Elkout's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
49 views

Mini weather station project not working

I have been trying to do this project for 2 weeks. The project is about mini weather station. It uses esp8266, DHT11 sensor,BMP180 sensor and FC 37 rain sensor. I have taken reference from the ...
Dharshinii Ravikumar's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
28 views

Why is access denied when using UWF on Windows 10 Embedded IoT? [duplicate]

I have a PC that uses Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit and have had some help from an external company to convert it to a Windows Embedded machine. One thing I need to do on the PC is use UWF to check the ...
Ben's user avatar
  • 39