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Connect to AWS IoT While Making Masala Chai [ASMR]

February 18, 20193 min read

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ESP8266 MQTT IoT AWS Amazon smart devices debashish sahu

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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

Generate a Policy first
Create a Policy details

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

Create a Thing

Create a Thing first
Single Thing

Create a AWS IoT Thing

Thing Name

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

Create Certificates

Click on Create Certificate

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

Download the Root CA Certificate

Download the RSA 2048 bit key

Attached the Policy created from step above
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.

Library	Link	Purpose
Arduino MQTT	https://github.com/256dpi/arduino-mqtt	communication (choose 1)
PubSubClient	https://github.com/knolleary/pubsubclient	communication (choose 1)
ArduinoJSON	https://github.com/bblanchon/ArduinoJson	example-data-formatting

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