nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

[Meriba]

We are using the nRF9160 DK with the Asset tracker example, which is working in combination with the nRF Cloud.

Now we want to use our own AWS account in combination with the nRF9160 DK. Therefore we changed the CONFIG_NRF_CLOUD_HOST_NAME to our host name. But the device will not connect. Are there any other changes necessary? In your example, the certificate test of AWS IoT is disabled, correct?

Do you have a documentation how the device should be configured to connect to the AWS server?
Where are all the settings stored, who are listed in the generated autoconfig.h file? For example changing the NRF Cloud Host Name?

Thank you for any suggestions.

[Eric Gross]

For what it is worth, I just skipped the nRF Cloud stuff and used the MQTT library it is built on directly. It appears to be a fairly thin wrapper. 

[Meriba]

Hi Eric

Do you have your own MQTT Server (Broker) which could manage each device, including secure connections with certificates? Or are you using an existing platform?

Regards
Meriba

[Eric Gross]

I'm just using Mosquito MQTT server in an Azure cloud instance. Both it and the MQTT client from Nordic support TLS certificates.