ESP32/ESP8266 Azure IoT Central Demo

Prerequisites

Identify whether your device uses ESP32 or ESP8266 and follow the applicable instructions to set up ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework):

Visit AzureIoTCentral and create a new application.
Select Sample Devkits
Add a new mxchip device. (real device) (Under Device Explorer)
Browse into device window and click/open Connect on the top-right of the device screen
Grab scopeId, device Id and primary key and use them on the next step

On your machine, open a terminal and navigate to the ESP32 sample directory, then run the following commands:

cd esp-azure
make menuconfig

You will see the ESP-IDF configuration interface.

Go to Azure IoT Central Configuration and fill in the Azure IoT device credentials from earlier, as well as your Wi-Fi SSID and Password
Go to Serial flasher config to configure specify the serial port to which your device is connected
- *Note: If you are using the Linux subsystem on Windows, the serial port will be /dev/ttySN, where N is the number of the COM port. For example, if your device is connected to COM5, the serial port will be /dev/tty/S5.

make flash

For Node-MCU: Press the button on the right if the process hangs on connecting..

To monitor the device output while running:

make monitor

You can also run the build and monitor in onte step and run with multiple compiler threads:

make -j4 flash monitor

This will build with four concurrent build processes to take advantage of more cores on your workstation.

To exit the monitor, hit Control-]

Make sure your ESP device had connected to PC with serial port;
Make sure you have selected the corrected serial port;
- command > sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER can also be used.

See esp-azure/main/azure-iot-central.c for IoTCentral specific connection and telemetry codes. If you want to learn more advanced functionality, visit ../MXCHIP/mxchip_advanced/src/AzureIOTClient.cpp

Both projects use iotc wrapper. You can use the IoTCentral related logic interchangebly on both side.