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title: AWS IoT weight: 4605

AWS IoT

This activity allows you to update a device shadow on AWS.

Installation

Flogo Web

This activity comes out of the box with the Flogo Web UI

Flogo CLI

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	Required	Description
thingName	True	The name of the "thing" in Aws IoT
awsEndpoint	True	The Aws Iot Endpoint for the account
desired	False	The desired state to update
reported	False	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": "awsiot_1",
  "name": "Update AWS Device Shadow",
  "description": "Simple AWS IoT",
  "activity": {
    "ref": "github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/activity/awsiot",
    "input": {
      "thingName": "raspberry-pi",
      "awsEndpoint": "A3CWMRYOWXFD7I.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",
      "reported": { "temp":"50" }
    }
  }
}