Anjay LwM2M library

What is Anjay?

Anjay is a C library that aims to be the reference implementation of the OMA Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LwM2M) device management protocol. It eases development of fully-featured LwM2M client applications by taking care of protocol details, allowing the user to focus on device-specific aspects.

The project has been created and is actively maintained by AVSystem.

• Full documentation
• Tutorials
• API docs

• Supported features
• About OMA LwM2M
• Quickstart guide
  • Dependencies
  • Running the demo client
  • Detailed compilation guide
• License
  • Commercial support
• Contributing

Supported features

• LwM2M Bootstrap Interface:

  • Request
  • Finish
  • Write
  • Delete
  • Discover

• LwM2M Client Registration Interface:

  • Register
  • Update
  • De-register

• LwM2M Device Management and Service Enablement Interface:

  • Read
  • Discover
  • Write
  • Write-Attributes
  • Execute
  • Create
  • Delete

• LwM2M Information Reporting Interface:

  • Observe
  • Notify
  • Cancel Observation

• LwM2M Security modes:

  • DTLS with Certificates (if supported by backend TLS library)
  • DTLS with PSK (if supported by backend TLS library)
  • NoSec mode

• Supported TLS backends:

  • mbed TLS
  • OpenSSL
  • tinydtls

• CoAP data formats:

  • TLV
  • Opaque
  • Plain Text (including base64 encoding of opaque data)

• CoAP BLOCK transfers (for transferring data that does not fit in a single UDP packet):

  • Block1 (sending / receiving requests)
  • Block2 (sending responses)

• Pre-implemented LwM2M Objects:

  • Access Control
  • Security
  • Server

• Stream-oriented persistence API

About OMA LwM2M

OMA LwM2M is a remote device management and telemetry protocol designed to conserve network resources. It is especially suitable for constrained wireless devices, where network communication is a major factor affecting battery life. LwM2M features secure (DTLS-encrypted) methods of remote bootstrapping, configuration and notifications over UDP or SMS.

More details about OMA LwM2M: Brief introduction to LwM2M

Quickstart guide

Dependencies

• C compiler with C99 support,
• CMake 2.8.11+,
• avs_commons - included in the repository as a subproject,
• If DTLS support is enabled, at least one of:
  • OpenSSL 1.1+,
  • mbed TLS 2.0+,
  • tinydtls 0.9+,
• Optional dependencies (required for tests):
  • C++ compiler with C++11 support,
  • Python 3.5+,
  • pybind11 - included in the repository as a subproject,
  • scan-build - for static analysis.

To install everything on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libmbedtls-dev
# Optionally for tests:
sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev libssl-dev python3 python3-cryptography python3-sphinx clang

Or on macOS Sierra with Homebrew:

brew install cmake mbedtls
# Optionally for tests:
brew install python3 openssl llvm
pip3 install cryptography sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme

Running the demo client

To compile Anjay demo client and connect it to a local LwM2M server listening on default 5683 port:

git clone https://github.com/AVSystem/Anjay.git \
    && cd Anjay \
    && git submodule update --init \
    && cmake . \
    && make -j \
    && ./output/bin/demo --server-uri coap://127.0.0.1:5683

Detailed compilation guide

First, make sure all necessary submodules are downloaded and up-to-date:

git submodule update --init

By default demo client compiles with DTLS enabled and uses mbedtls as a DTLS provider, but you may choose other DTLS backends currently supported by setting DTLS_BACKEND in a CMake invocation to one of the following DTLS backends: openssl, mbedtls or tinydtls:

cmake . -DDTLS_BACKEND="mbedtls" && make -j

Or, if a lack of security (not recommended) is what you need for some reason:

cmake . -DDTLS_BACKEND="" && make -j

Compiled executables, including demo client, can be found in output/bin subdirectory.

For a detailed guide on configuring and compiling the project (including cross-compiling), see Compiling client applications.

To start the demo client:

# uses plain CoAP
./output/bin/demo --server-uri coap://127.0.0.1:5683

# uses DTLS in PSK mode, with PSK identity "foo" and secret key "bar" (hex-encoded)
./output/bin/demo --server-uri coaps://127.0.0.1:5684 --security-mode psk --identity 666f6f --key 626172

NOTE: When establishing a DTLS connection, the URI MUST use "coaps://". In NoSec mode (default), the URI MUST use "coap://".

Running tests on Linux:

./devconfig && make check

Running tests on macOS Sierra:

# If the scan-build script is located somewhere else, then you need to
# specify a different SCAN_BUILD_BINARY. Below, we are assumming scan-build
# comes from an llvm package, installed via homebrew.
./devconfig -DSCAN_BUILD_BINARY=/usr/local/Cellar/llvm/*/bin/scan-build && make check

License

See LICENSE file.

Commercial support

Anjay LwM2M library comes with the option of full commercial support, provided by AVSystem.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See our contributing guide.