Build the code on your laptop

Clone the repository

Main code can be found on the repository page: github.com/aws/amazon-freertos

git clone https://github.com/aws/amazon-freertos.git --recurse-submodules

Note: from now on, we’ll assume your bash is in the workshop folder

Setup your credentials

Create the aws_clientcredential_keys.h

Navigate to https://yona75.github.io/credformatter/, upload your Certificate and Private key that you downloaded in the previous step and generate an aws_clientcredential_keys.h file.

Copy aws_clientcredential_keys.h to project

Copy the file to ./amazon-freertos/demos/include/ directory by dragging it there

Edit aws_clientcredential.h

Open the aws_clientcredential.h file by double-clicking on it. And change the following values:

...
#define clientcredentialMQTT_BROKER_ENDPOINT "[YOUR AWS IOT ENDPOINT]"
...
#define clientcredentialIOT_THING_NAME       "[THE THING NAME YOU CREATED]"
...
#define clientcredentialWIFI_SSID            "[YOUR WIFI SSID]"
...
#define clientcredentialWIFI_PASSWORD        "[YOUR WIFI PASSOWRD]"
...
#define clientcredentialWIFI_SECURITY        eWiFiSecurityWPA2
...

Note: clientcredentialWIFI_SECURITY is defined without double quotes

Connect your board to your laptop

Find the USB device

ls /dev/cu.*

Should return something like: /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART

Make a note of the “/dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART” (copy)

Configure the code

Run make menuconfig and configure the serial port.

cd ./amazon-freertos/vendors/espressif/boards/m5stickc/aws_demos

make menuconfig

Select “Serial flasher config”
Set the serial port to: [YOUR /dev/cu….]
Save and then Exit

make menuconfig

Compile, flash and monitor the code

make all -j4 && make flash && screen /dev/cu.... 115200 -L

Note: replace /dev/cu…. by your specific serial port

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