Send Message to Azure IoT

[John O’Gorman]

Hi,

I am trying to send a message to Azure IoT using the Resource.

From other resources I understand the structure of an Azure payload for the function node should be:-

{
“protocol”: “amqp”,
“deviceId”: “<your device id>”,
“key”:”<your device key>”,
“data”:”<your json data>”
}

I am not sure where the other entries (the http end point, shared key etc) should go. These are usually handled in the form of a connection string in the Azure nodes. But I am not sure where to put these.

Any guidance?

[Peter Ferland]

To directly use a connection string, in the msg.payload you can set a connectionString field:
{
“protocol”: “amqp”,
“deviceId”: “your device id”,
“key”:”your device key”,
“data”:”your json data”
“connectionString”:”your connection string”
}

• This reply was modified 7 years, 4 months ago by Peter Ferland. Reason: unrestricted html screwed up tags

[Peter Ferland]

Alternatively you can include all this information in a javascript function, for example:

var azuremsg = {};
azuremsg.topic = "devices/" + 
    "your device id" + 
    "/messages/events/";
azuremsg.payload = {};
azuremsg.payload.protocol = "amqp";
azuremsg.payload.deviceId = "insert device id";
azuremsg.payload.key = "insert key";
azuremsg.payload.hostname = "insert hostname";
azuremsg.payload.data = "data to send goes here";
return azuremsg;

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