AWS IoT - Device data to dashboard in 10 minutes - A demonstration

[@brentblomquist5303]

Best Tutorial I've seen in my weeks of searching how to setup AWS! Thank you Chris!

[@forresthopkinsa]

Take a drink every time it plays the same opening measure of royalty-free music

[@forresthopkinsa]

Seriously though, great video 😅

[@cavaliereoscuro1098]

Hi Chris, great video: in only 10 minutes you explained a bunch of things (🙂) in a very clear way.

[@Jucrisr]

Thanks for this. Could you please comment on the pricing as well?

[@mapo321]

Based on changes in AWS since this video was made, some errors are occurring following this procedure: 1) Timestream does not like the timestamp produced by AWS and throws this error "errorMessage": "Failed to write records to Timestream. The error received was 'Invalid timestamp value ''. Length should be in [1, 256] in UTF-8 encoded bytes.'. 2) Grafana is now managed through a workspace so the setup procedures are more involved.

[@its_mrpanchal]

Great Video, I just started my career in EV industry as a battery data analyst, And I want to learn how to analyze the battery data in aws. My Task is to create a dashboard but don't know how to create it. Can you please guide me step by step. I have some data to analyze

[@IsaacBG84]

Hello, what kind of device will you use to collect the data? a microcontroller or a Linux like RB pi?

[@user-cc8kb]

Hello, thank you very much for the tutorial! I got the iot client part working and can see all the messages published under the sdk/test/python topic in the iot core test console. I set up the the timestream database table and created the iot rule, but no matter what I try, the iot rule won't execute. It does not get triggered. Does anyone have an idea what might be the mistake?

[@nibrahv]

Try changing the Timestamp unit from MILLISECONDS to SECONDS. Using the MQTT test client, you can check to see if there are any events published to the errors topic. There may be something there about the message timestamp being out of range. I found this to mean, in my case, that the messages were sending the time in seconds, rather than milliseconds.

[@cristianvargas3365]

Thank Chris, it was a great and useful explanation!! I learned a lot!!. I´m in my first steps in AWS solutions.. in order that users can access to created dashboards, it needed that they have AWS counts?

[@juliomunozcastro1771]

Great explanation, thank you.

[@FredFlintstoffel]

Got all the way through, got data in timestream, but upon opening the Grafana dashboard, I have no option to add data source nor much else really. Any advice?

[@headfullofcode]

simple use case to understand, thanks

[@WillyPietersz]

Is there also an option to control something? Like a button in the dashboard that sends back information to MQTT?

[@ssk360]

amazing example, really helps a lot

[@sylvestermuzendah]

Thank you. Insightful

[@introverthere6625]

Timestream option not available when selecting data source

[@danielergawanto4170]

can i make synchronization from databse to nodered and the to grafana for visualization

[@soundbagmusicproductions]

@AWS IoT @nolansingroy I followed the instructions to the letter. I see the data values coming in to IoT core MQTT test client. But when I run the Query editor inTimestream I don't see any values being stored. I get a message in output tab saying success and 0 rows effected. Any advice?

[@MrRocketRider]

Thank you for the video!!

[@jaymedavis7567]

Fantastic

[@meteogold6761]

What's the name of the VSCode theme?

[@vongtithtola4565]

Are these cover AWS Free Tier?

[@chrisgiavotto3930]

Great Video and I am following along on a Windows PC (which needs both GIT and Power Shell installed to work) - I set up the AWS IoT in London and I am getting messages into the system. But the Timestream was not available in that region so the Timestream DB was set up in Ireland region. Now the Message routing Rule (in London) does not give me the option for Timestream table. Can I set up inter AWS Region or do I need to start again by setting up the AWS IoT in Ireland region? Perhaps a pre-requisite note to followers - select a region which has all the services you need for your project?

[@AWSIoTChannel]

I would recommend you only use London if you have requirements to keep the data in the UK, as the costs for the London region are slightly higher.

[@chrisgiavotto3930]

@@AWSIoTChannel Thanks for the good advice. I set up the Things in Ireland and pushed on - Database linking works. Stuck on Amazon Managed Grafana as its reporting No IAM Identity Center user(s) or user group(s) assigned. I think this offering has changed since the video? The menu options we not the same. Any ideas?

[@ignatiusbarry4447]

suwun mas

[@luv-ly462]

cannot unzip the file via cmd or terminal, could you please teach me how to do that in windows?

[@freedomfighter7318]

Hi everyone, i am encountering this error: "RuntimeError: 34 (AWS_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT): An invalid argument was passed to a function." I've already cloned the AWS SDK and checked my script's configuration, but I'm still stuck with this issue. If anyone has experience with this error or knows how to troubleshoot it, I'd greatly appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!

[@novismarthome]

Is it good to create it like this way ie using aws iot core, time stream and grafana or just use aws iot sitewise for storing the temperature of the iot device. Which would be the best way

[@AWSIoTChannel]

It depends on the application you have. This is a simple "build in minutes" example. I would suggest you reach out to your AWS account team to discuss your particular application. AWS IoT SiteWise is very good if you need to build models of the assets and transformations of the data/metrics.

[@artit91]

Sitewise has clever integrations.

[@allan-howe]

Man that music is so annoying. Great demo otherwise…

[@IsaacBG84]

And if need to publish this dashboard for users to login and view?

[@AWSIoTChannel]

You can let users connect to Grafana but you could also build another front end to expose the data. Alternatively you could push your data into AWS IoT SiteWise and use the monitor or a custom app for end users. docs.aws.amazon.com/iot-sitewise/latest/appguide/what-is-monitor-app.html

[@davidpolux]

@AWSIoTChannel If I want to create a real-time dashboard using these same tools, how can I do it?

[@AWSIoTChannel]

What is the use case you have? The Grafana refresh can be reduced. Another alternative is to use AWS IoT SiteWise which will allow you to visualise the data directly in the console.

[@davidpolux]

@@AWSIoTChannel i want to make a dashboard like a SCADA

[@nolansingroy]

I followed this exactly but nothing is being stored to my aws timeseries database

[@nolansingroy]

When inpecting the IoT rule I can see the rule is subscribed to 'sdk/test/python' and the basic ingest topic is 'aws/rules/demoThingToTimestream2' I can publish a message to the aws/rules/demoThingToTimestream2 topic and see that it got the mqtt but my rule is not automatically logging the 'sdk/test/python' data to the 'aws/rules/demoThingToTimestream2'

[@nolansingroy]

my iot rule query 'SELECT * FROM 'sdk/test/python'

[@AWSIoTChannel]

You can turn on logging in AWS IoT core and then look at the cloudwatch log as well as adding a failure log to the rule.

[@nolansingroy]

@@AWSIoTChannel how do I turn on AWS IoT core logging? I added a failure to the rule per your video but still nothing

[@AWSIoTChannel]

@@nolansingroy instructions here docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/configure-logging.html

[@michal.leszcz]

Nothing is being pushed into timeseries. I've setup the whole thing twice with the same result. No data in timeseries. Looking at comments I'm notr the only one.

[@nibrahv]

Try changing the Timestamp unit from MILLISECONDS to SECONDS. Using the MQTT test client, you can check to see if there are any events published to the errors topic. There may be something there about the message timestamp being out of range. I found this to mean, in my case, that the messages were sending the time in seconds, rather than milliseconds.

[@jimaustin3608]

Thanks@@nibrahv, that worked for me!​