Thing Shadow

AWS IoT Core Client of ThingsPro Edge exposes device's up to date configurations and allow you to re-configure device and turn on/off services by shadow of Things. You can follow the instructions in the picture below on the AWS portal.

Thing Shodaw - Reported Properties

AWS IoT Core Client of ThingsPro Edge exposes device's up to date configurations by reported properties when it connected. The reported properties be categorize by below.

Sections of Reported Properties

No	Section	Description
1	wan	Display network interface which connect to WAN.
2	general	List device general properties, such as CPU type, Firmware version, ThingsPro Edge version and etc.

Sample of Reported Properties

{
  "desired": {
    "general": {
      "biosVersion": "1.1.0S01",
      "cpu": "ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)",
      "description": "",
      "deviceType": "gateway",
      "firmwareVersion": "1.2",
      "hostName": "Moxa",
      "lastBootTime": "2021-11-01T02:25:06+08:00",
      "memorySize": 2116501504,
      "modelName": "AIG-301-T-US-AZU-LX",
      "serialNumber": "TBZJB1060412",
      "thingsproVersion": "2.2.1-3324"
    },
    "wan": {
      "displayName": "LAN1",
      "dns": [
        "10.168.1.23"
      ],
      "gateway": "10.123.20.1",
      "ip": "10.123.21.216",
      "name": "eth0",
      "netmask": "255.255.252.0"
    }
  },
  "reported": {
    "general": {
      "biosVersion": "1.1.0S01",
      "cpu": "ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)",
      "description": "",
      "deviceType": "gateway",
      "firmwareVersion": "1.2",
      "hostName": "Moxa",
      "lastBootTime": "2021-11-01T02:25:06+08:00",
      "memorySize": 2116501504,
      "modelName": "AIG-301-T-US-AZU-LX",
      "serialNumber": "TBZJB1060412",
      "thingsproVersion": "2.2.1-3324"
    },
    "wan": {
      "displayName": "LAN1",
      "dns": [
        "10.168.1.23"
      ],
      "gateway": "10.123.20.1",
      "ip": "10.123.21.216",
      "name": "eth0",
      "netmask": "255.255.252.0"
    }
  }
}

Thing Shodaw - Desired Properties

AWS IoT Core Client of ThingsPro Edge allow you to re-configure device and turn on/off services via Desired Properties. In current version, AWS IoT Core Client allow below sections to be update via Desired Properties.

Sections of Desired Properties

No	Section	Description
1	general	To update host name and device description.

Note:

There are two keys that is commonly used in the desired properties:

1. General

• Update device host name

  {
      "desired": {
          "general": {            
              "hostName": "MyHost"
          }
      }
  }

• Update device description

  {
      "desired": {
          "general": {            
              "description": "MyDevice"
          }
      }
  }

Last updated on 2021-11-01 by GaryHsu77