Integration with Azure

[andy-shev]

Suddenly found an article: https://dougseven.com/2016/02/23/intel-edison-node-js-and-azure-iot/

I'm wondering if we need to document how to achieve same or similar with this project.

[htot]

That should be fairly easy to do as in our Dunfell image PR #126 we already have:

root@edison:~# node -v
v12.14.1

So connecting to Azure should be the simple part (have you already received a donation from MS? :-) ).

The Johnny-five library aiu is an alternative to MRAA and UPM (which is currently broken for gpio, and bindings for nodejs are missing). Probably an alternative to the edison-io would be needed to get Johnny-five to work.

Or (maybe better) an alternative nodejs framework that supports libgpiod and understands iio devices in the kernel (which I have not yet tried myself).