Getting started with Edison Board

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Dear Community,

I would like to ask if someone can help me to Getting started with the Intel Edison Board,

My board is connect with AWS, I created a topic and a rule for store a data ( temperature ) on my DynamoDB.

But I'm not able to create an history of the temperature received from my sensor connect to the board on PIN A0 ( analog PIN)

Problems:

- I cannot read the data inside DynamoDB

- I don't know how to create a appropriate JSON ( I mean the logic structure )

- In this moment, I'm using SNS (I created a rule, of course) for receive an email with a condition ( temperature = 25, send me an email ) WORKS!

Same procedure with DynamoDB, DOESN'T WORK

- How works the thingShadow.publish and the thingShadow logic structure? Very crucial for me

- How works Lambda function?

- What is the best way to use the relational database management system? Also crucial

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JAVASCRIPT CODE

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var awsIot = require('aws-iot-device-sdk'); //require for awsiot

var mraa = require('mraa'); //require mraa for analog/digital read/write

console.log('MRAA Version: ' + mraa.getVersion()); //write the mraa version to the console

/*

* CONFIGURATION varIABLES

* To set your AWS credentials, export them to your environment variables.

* Run the following from the Edison command line:

* export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='AKID'

* export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='SECRET'

*/

// AWS IoT variables

var mqttPort = 8883;

var rootPath = '/home/root/awscerts/';

var awsRootCACert = "root-CA.pem.crt";

var awsClientCert = "certificate.pem.crt";

var awsClientPrivateKey = "private.pem.key";

var topicName = "Edison";

var awsClientId = "Edison";

var awsIoTHostAddr = "host";

/*

* Instance AWS variables for use in the application for

* AWS IoT Certificates for secure connection.

*/

var privateKeyPath = rootPath + awsClientPrivateKey;

var clientCertPath = rootPath + awsClientCert;

var rootCAPath = rootPath + awsRootCACert;

/*

*Initializing Device Communication for AWS IoT

*/

var myThingName = 'Edison';

var thingShadows = awsIot.thingShadow({

keyPath: privateKeyPath,

certPath: clientCertPath,

caPath: rootCAPath,

clientId: awsClientId,

region: 'us-west-2'

});

console.log("AWS IoT Device object initialized");

mythingstate = {

"state": {

"reported": {

"ip": "unknown"

}

}

} ;

var networkInterfaces = require( 'os' ).networkInterfaces( );

mythingstate["state"]["reported"]["ip"] = networkInterfaces['wlan0'][0]['address'];

var temperaturePin = new mraa.Aio(2); //setup access analog input Analog pin # 2 (A2)

var temperatureValue = temperaturePin.read(); //read the value of the analog pin

console.log(temperatureValue); //write the value of the analog pin to the console

// calculate temperature

var tmpVoltage = ((temperatureValue*5.0)/1023.0); // convert analog value to voltage

var temperature = (5.26*Math.pow(tmpVoltage,3))-(27.34*Math.pow(tmpVoltage,2))+(68.87*tmpVoltage)-17.81);// convert analog value to voltage

console.log(temperature);

thingShadows.on('connect', function() {

console.log("Connected...");

console.log("Registering...");

thingShadows.register(myThingName);

// An update right away causes a timeout error, so we wait about 2 seconds

setTimeout( function() {

console.log("Updating my IP address...");

clientTokenIP = thingShadows.update(myThingName, mythingstate);

console.log("Update:" + clientTokenIP);

}, 2500 );

// Code below just logs messages for info/debugging

thingShadows.on('status',

function(thingName, stat, clientToken, stateObject) {

console.log('received '+stat+' on '+thingName+': '+

JSON.stringify(stateObject));

});

thingShadows.on('update',

function(thingName, stateObject) {

console.log('received update '+' on '+thingName+': '+

JSON.stringify(stateObject));

});

thingShadows.on('delta',

function(thingName, stateObject) {

console.log('received delta '+' on '+thingName+': '+

JSON.stringify(stateObject));

});

thingShadows.on('timeout',

function(thingName, clientToken) {

console.log('received timeout for '+ clientToken)

});

thingShadows

.on('close', function() {

console.log('close');

});

thingShadows

.on('reconnect', function() {

console.log('reconnect');

});

thingShadows

.on('offline', function() {

console.log('offline');

});

thingShadows

.on('error', function(error) {

console.log('error', error);

});

//Watch for temperature

if(temperature > 35 ){

thingShadows.publish('topic',

'Your room temperature is greater than 35deg C');

}

});

IDE: Intel XD

Language: Javascript

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Hello Ed_Edison_Pic,

I have never interacted with AWS before but I found a few links that I believe could be of help for you, why don't you check them out? They are: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/connecting-to-amazon-web-services-aws-iot-using-mqtt https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/setup-aws-iot-intel-edison-board https://github.com/intel-iot-devkit/aws-iot-intel Nevertheless, if you still have doubts after checking those links, I'd suggest you to contact Amazon as they own the support of AWS. You can contact them in https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/. -Peter.

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Thank you very much Peter,

May can you provide me more manual or tutorial about that?

I really appreciated your effort to help me, but I'm still waiting some people can help me with AWS application

Best regards and have a nice day,

Edoardo

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Unfortunately, the guides I posted above are (to my knowledge) the only ones currently available. As this is strictly related to AWS, I would strongly suggest you to reach out to Amazon as they should be able to provide you a more accurate suggestion.

If you have any other doubts related to Edison, I would be more than happy to assist you.-Peter.