On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 11:27:25 PDT Scott King wrote: > There seems to be a lot of conflicting information about this: > > The easy-setup wiki page shows a constrained device registering with an > iotivity cloud without any other devices running iotivity besides the > mediator The example easy-setup app shows a coap+tcp ip address being sent > to the constrained device > > None of the documentation on end points that I have read state that you are > limited to your local network
Correct. > There are no TLS libraries in the iotivity-constrained repo That comes from your OS. Main IoTivity no longer contains TLS code either. > Thiago Macieira said in a previous post that "I advise against making a > constrained device talk directly to the Internet and the cloud." Opinion still valid. > Can anyone confirm one way or another whether a constrained device can talk > to the cloud? If it can't, is this a feature that may be included at some > point in the future? It can, but it shouldn't. You should only talk to the local network. Leave cloud connectivity to the bigger devices, which have more an in-depth security protocol and hardening. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
