IoT Dashboard – A live dashboard companion for AWS IoT
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As an aside, I've only worked with Azure's IoT platform, not AWS' - anyone know how the compare?
Also, we are working on integration with Azure IoT as well. Soon, we will update the IoT Dashboard to support Azure IoT along with AWS IOT.
Most everything is solid. Typical AWS issues that there are policy things that only “make sense” (loosely) after you’ve failed at them many times.
My specific annoyance right now is that there is no cross-region compatibility, and the Device Registry has no backup and restore, so you are on your own if you want to take your device registry, back it up, and deploy to a different region.
I haven’t used the Device Shadows because it’s outside my use case but seems like a feature most people would want.
I have no major complaints.
First, the docs make it sound much harder than it really is, especially around certificates and device registration.
Second, the limitations. I don't know what AWS is like, but Azure loves their limitations. For a service that's meant to scale globally, it's a real PITA for some deployments. It's not an issue for many, but when it is, you're constantly trying to come up with clever ways to avoid them.
Yes, registration can be complex! JIT reg, JIT provision, PSK reg at birth, certs, keys, tokens. We’re even doing something really goofy because our device never touched the internet directly, always through a middleman, so it’s been double complex and revolves around custom authorization and temporary tokens. I see how we could simplify by doing JIT-R with PKI but don’t have the resources on the device. I don’t fault the providers for making it seem like it’s complex, it definitely can be!
I suppose it’s annoying that a “job” in AWS costs $0.03 per device, and that can be any issued job using their API. So you “could” use their setup to reset() but mostly it’s their OTA Update agent which is good, but when you’re looking at 100k eventual devices, every firmware update is $3k. Which is also fine if it’s an update you need. If it isn’t, you threw away $3k. The OTA Agent is very good though, rollbacks, logging, canary rollout, etc.
I worked right with AWS on this project so Azure or GCP wasn’t an option. And now I know the system so it’s unlikely as a small team I’ll look into Azure next time. But I guess that’s how it goes.
First thing we do when there is an issue in Dev is to * the policy out.
put it to run and as you may see the widgets dont show too much: https://imgur.com/a/qIuHQ0I
let me know when you finish it :(
This is our initial version. So we have added the most used widget to this. As you said, we have donuts, switch and widgets for publishing messages ( managing devices) which will be enabled in the subsequent release of the Bevywise IoT Dashboard.
We have done a demo setup for the currently available widgets here at http://iotdashboard.mqttserver.com/
Look forward to revert back to you with the next version !!