Google IOT MQTT Sample

Overview

This sample application demonstrates a “full stack” application. This currently is able to

  • Acquire a DHCPv4 lease.

  • Connect to an SNTP server and acquire current time

  • Establish a TLS connection with the Google IOT Cloud servers

  • Publish data to the Google IOT Cloud

  • Send/Receive keep alive / pings from cloud server

The source code for this sample application can be found at: samples/net/cloud/google_iot_mqtt.

Requirements

  • Entropy source

  • Google IOT Cloud account

  • Google IOT Cloud credentials and required information

  • Network connectivity

Building and Running

This application has been built and tested on the NXP FRDMK64F. RSA or ECDSA certs/keys are required to authenticate to the Google IOT Cloud. The application includes a key creation script.

Run the create_keys.py script in the samples/net/cloud/google_iot_mqtt/src/private_info/ directory. Be sure that they key type generated (RSA or ECDSA) matches your config of either JWT_SIGN_RSA or JWT_SIGN_ECDSA.

Users will also be required to configure the following Kconfig options based on their Google Cloud IOT project. The following values come from the Google Cloud Platform itself:

  • PROJECT_ID: When you select your project at the top of the UI, it should have a “name”, and there should be an ID field as well. This seems to be two words and a number, separated by hyphens.

  • REGION: The Region shows in the list of registries for your registry. And example is “us-central1”.

  • REGISTRY_ID: Each registry has an id. This is a string given when creating the registry.

  • DEVICE_ID: A name given for each device. When viewing the table of devices, this will be shown.

From these values, the config values can be set using the following template:

See Google Cloud MQTT Documentation.