Connect to AWS IoT While Making Masala Chai [ASMR]

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Don't confuse Masala Chai with Chai Latte, no not the same thing! While we make chai during the snowy season, lets connect ESP8266/32 to Amazon's AWS IoT in less than 5 minutes.

AWS IoT Core Instructions

Goto AWS IoT Core on your AWS console

Create a Policy

1. •

   Generate a Policy first

2. •

   Create a Policy details

• •Provide a Name
• •Action: iot:*
• •Resource ARM: *
• •Effect: Allow

Create a Thing

1. •

   Create a Thing first

2. •

   Single Thing

• •Create a AWS IoT Thing

1. •Thing Name

• •Provide a Name to the Thing
• •Copy thing name into THINGNAME
• •Click Next

1. •Create Certificates

• •Click on Create Certificate

1. •Download Certificates Download the following

• •Contents for client_cert[] from XXXXXXXXXX.cert.pem
• •Contents for privkey[] from XXXXXXXXXX.private.key
• •Contents for cacert[] from Root CA for AWS

1. •Download the Root CA Certificate

• •Download the RSA 2048 bit key

1. •

   Attached the Policy created from step above

2. •

   Interact with AWs IoT Core

• •look for HTTP end point and copt it into MQTT_HOST[]
• •Copy thing name into THINGNAME (same name from step 3)

Software requirements

ESP8266

• •Use ESP8266 Arduino Core version 2.5.0-beta2 or greater
• •Will NOT work on ESP8266 Arduino Core v2.4.2 !!!

ESP32

• •Use the latest release version

Libraries Needed

platformio.ini is included, use PlatformIO and it will take care of installing the following libraries.