Hi Alex, Does this involve "Lambda functions"? Could a cell modem like a Ublox R401M talk to your server securely?
-Pete (AWS illiterate) On 2/18/19 6:41 PM, Alex Davis via TriEmbed wrote: > I took advantage of the free AWS Cloud hosting offer to set up a little > Ubuntu 18 server instance on which to run an MQTT server > (https://aws.amazon.com/free) and some other things. > > You can get 12 months of a small (1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage) virtual > instance running Ubuntu. It's perfect for an MQTT server. > > If you'd like to use it for MQTT experiments, please let me know. I will > provide you the hostname and the SSL cert. I used the following to get > mosquitto set up with SSL: http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mosquitto-tls/ > > I will be using this MQTT server as a way of simplifying my "NHL Goal Light" > project. Instead of having the ESP8266 "IOT power switch" module try to parse > the JSON from the nhl website (it sucks at it due to memory leaks), I will > offload that to my AWS instance. This way all the ESP8266 has to do is > subscribe, and this can be handled easily in C++ vs what I have been doing in > micropython. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list To post message: [email protected] List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
