README.md

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tibco-awsiot

This activity provides your flogo application the ability to update a device shadow on AWS.

Installation

flogo add activity github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/activity/awsiot

Schema

Inputs and Outputs:

{
  "input":[
    {
      "name": "thingName",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "awsEndpoint",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true
    },
    {
      "name": "desired",
      "type": "params"
    },
    {
      "name": "reported",
      "type": "params"
    }
  ]
}

Settings

Setting	Description
thingName	The name of the "thing" in Aws IoT
awsEndpoint	The Aws Iot Endpoint for the account
desired	The desired state to update
reported	The reported state to update

Configuration

Certificate Installation

The activity looks for the Aws device certificates in a "things" directory relative to where the engine was started. Download the root CA certificate file and save it as "things/root-CA.pem.crt". Now place the cert and private key generated by Aws IoT for your thing under "things/[thingName]" as device.pem.crt and device.pem.key respectively.

Flow Configuration

Configure a task in flow to update the device shadow of 'raspberry-pi' with a reported temp of "50".

{
  "id": 3,
  "type": 1,
  "activityType": "tibco-awsiot",
  "name": "Update Device Shadow",
  "attributes": [
    {
      "name": "thingName",
      "type": "string",
      "value": "raspberry-pi"
    },
    {
      "name": "awsEndpoint",
      "type": "string",
      "value": "A3CWMRYOWXFD7I.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com"
    },
    {
      "name": "reported",
      "type": "params",
      "value": { "temp":"50" }
    }
  ]
}