Create AWS IoT Thing using python and boto3

This project will create a thing on AWS IoT platform using boto3 and python and download the certificates.

Requirements

• AWS Credentials, if you have installed AWS CLI, then you can use it to configure your credentials file:

  aws configure
  

  if don't you can create a credentials by creating credentials file under ~/.aws/ (~/.aws/credentials) and put:

  aws_access_key_id = YOUR_ACCESS_KEY
  aws_secret_access_key = YOUR_SECRET_KEY
  

• Python

• Boto3, you can find more information about it here

• Create a policy named GGTest_Group_Core-policy or change defaultPolicyName value in source code to your appropriate policy.

NOTE: install.sh installs some required libraries

Getting Started

• Clone the repository
• modify defaultPolicyName variable in createThing-Cert.py and run it python3 createThing-Cert.py
• modify line 29 in lab4_emulator_client_updated.py with your endpoint name and run it python3 lab4_emulator_client_updated.py