Setup C Virtual Device

Minimal code implementing an UniquID node. It can be used to add UniquID functionalities to the AWS IoT C sdk. Please refer to the README in the repo for further informations.

Install Prerequisites

Install these packages on your machine

sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev

How to integrate in the AWS IoT C sdk

1. Clone the AWS-IoT-sdk

   git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-embedded-C.git -b v3.0.1

2. Clone this repository inside the external_libs directory

   cd aws-iot-device-sdk-embedded-C/external_libs/
   git clone https://github.com/uniquid/uidagent-c.git

3. Clone the uidcore-c library

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/uniquid/uidcore-c.git

4. Clone the mbedtls code

   rm mbedTLS/README.txt
   git clone https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls.git mbedTLS -b mbedtls-2.16.1

5. Apply the provided patch, IoT-sdk.patch

   cd ..
   git apply external_libs/uidagent-c/IoT-sdk.patch
   cd samples/linux/subscribe_publish_sample
   make

Run the C device

1. Copy in the "certs" directory the CA certificates chain to authenticate the aws-mqtt-proxy and the uniquid mqtt broker. The file must be named rootCA.crt

   cp ../../../../caChain-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.crt ../../../certs/rootCA.crt

   Press tab to find the right caChain file.

2. Copy the configuration file (example file) **

   cp ../../../../aws_device_cfg.json aws_device_cfg.json

3. Run the sample

   ./subscribe_publish_sample

** The configuration can also be loaded from AWS_AGENT_CONFIG environment variable

export AWS_AGENT_CONFIG=$(cat path-to/aws_device_cfg.json)

The device will try to connect to the proxy every 10 seconds, for this reason an error message will be reported until you create an UniquID Contract between the C device and the AWS-IOT-UNIQUID-AUTHORIZER to bind these two components.

Only when both the components will receive the contract from the blockchain, the device will be able to connect.