Episode

Tribulations of an MQTT developer discovering Azure IoT

with Olivier Bloch

Microcontrollers such ESP32's, Arduino's, ESP8266 are incredibly popular in the maker space and with protocols such as MQTT and firmware such as Tasmota connecting these into Azure has never been easier. What value could I derive from replicating my home events into Azure? What higher level services could I use that goes above and beyond local systems such as HomeAssistant? These are the questions Shane asked himself while connecting his MQTT based home automation system to Azure, and he joins Olivier on the IoT Show to share his experience.

Learn more at https://aka.ms/iotshow/shane

Chapters

  • 0:00 - Teaser
  • 0:35 - Introductions, Shane's story
  • 2:47 - Background
  • 5:07 - Using MQTT to connect devices directly to Azure IoT
  • 9:52 - Leveraging the IoT Edge MQTT Broker
  • 12:00 - Connecting a local MQTT Broker to Azure IoT using the Python device SDK
  • 25:50 - Wrap up and call to action

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