nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:50:10 GMT

Hi Håkon

Yes this workaround was helpful in my case.

Now the nRF9160 works with the MQTT broker, but after 90s inactivity time, it will disconnect from the broker. Could you tell me please, where I can configure this?

Kind regards
Meriba

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:12:35 GMT

Are you in debug mode when seeing this? If yes, then the errata #11 might be the reason:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/-/media/DocLib/Other/Errata/nRF9160EngineeringAErratav11pdf.pdf?la=en

Could you try the workaround to see if the issue improves?

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:55:29 GMT

Hi Håkon

This is the output of the asset_tracker example with the "CONFIG_DEBUG=y" settings:

***** Booting Zephyr OS v1.13.99-ncs2 *****


Application started


Error of type ERROR_BSD_RECOVERABLE: 3

Kind regards
Meriba

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:14:24 GMT

Hi,

It sounds like the application is faulting or similar.

Could you compile your project with "CONFIG_DEBUG=y" set in your prj.conf to get additional debug output?

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:08:21 GMT

Hi Håkon

Thank you, the modem firmware update was successful now.

But with the new modem firmware "0.6.8-30.alpha" all of the example projects have problems while connecting to the LTE network.

For example the asset_tracker will restart after every LTE LC config....

Here is the serial log:

Secure Boot: prepare to jump to Non-Secure image

***** Booting Zephyr OS v1.13.99-ncs2 *****

Application started

LTE LC config ...

***** Booting Zephyr OS v1.13.99-ncs2 *****

Secure Boot: configure flash

Secure Boot: SPU: set region 0 as Secure

Kind regards
Meriba

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:58:21 GMT

Hi Meriba,

You can install a wheel package like this:

pip3 install path\to\nrf9160_mdm_*.whl

Afterwards you can update the modem by opening a cmd.exe in the path where the modem files are and write: nrf9160_mdm_dfu --update

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 11:03:17 GMT

Hi Håkon

I have never updated the modem firmware. Unfortunately I was not able to follow the instructions in the README.rst. How can I install the *.whl package with pyton 3 exactly?

Kind regards
Meriba

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:17:34 GMT

Hi,

If you are seeing unstable behavior, its important that you post logs regarding the behavior that you are seeing, so that we can look into why this is occurring.

Do you have the latest modem? It can be found here:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-Tools/Development-Kits/nRF9160-DK/Download#infotabs

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:56:11 GMT

Hi Håkon

Thank you for the information. I understand how the mqtt_simple example works.

It is working but not really stable. Sometimes it will not be able to connect to the MQTT broker, other times it will not receive message on a subscribe topic although according to the serial port output it has connected to the broker and subscribing to the topic:

The MQTT simple sample started

LTE Link Connecting ...

LTE Link Connected!


IPv4 Address found 0x93614854


[mqtt_evt_handler:150] MQTT client connected!

Subscribing to: my/subscribe/topic len 18

I also have other MQTT clients connected to the broker, they all works stable and receive the subscribe topics.

Kind regards
Meriba

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:28:32 GMT

Hi,

As the example is today, it will connect to iot.eclipse.org, then subscribes to a topic. When it receives a message on this topic, it loopbacks this to the publish topic.

The publish and subscribe topics are set in CONFIG_MQTT_PUB_TOPIC and CONFIG_MQTT_SUB_TOPIC. Here's the description of the example:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/pull/385/files#diff-736975e9e94d47c99396df6a393bf799R53

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:42:55 GMT

Thank you all for your suggestions.

The solution with the mqtt_simple is fine, it works also in combination with my MQTT broker.

But it happens some time, that it will not be able to connect to the LTE network, or in the Terminal i see "IPv4 Address found 0x93614854" but after this noting happens, instead of connecting to the MQTT client. Or the device will no longer receive subscribed topics from the server.

Does any one also have such kind of issues with this simple template sample?

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Håkon Alseth — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:26:51 GMT

Hi,

As Eric Gross mentions, the easiest approach is to take the MQTT library and use that directly to add your own sever and specific topics.

There's currently a open PR to add a simple mqtt template sample to NCS here:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/pull/385

The easiest way to fetch this is to add ".diff" or ".patch" to the URL, like this:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/pull/385.diff

Quick howto assuming you have wget (wget for windows is also available) installed:
$ cd /path/to/ncs/nrf

$ wget https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/pull/385.diff

$ git apply 385.diff

Now the sample should be present in samples/nrf9160/mqtt_simple/

Kind regards,

Håkon

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Eric Gross — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:24:55 GMT

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

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Meriba — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:40:20 GMT

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

RE: nRF9160 DK AWS IoT cloud setup

Eric Gross — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:32:29 GMT

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.