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Connect Raspberry Pi to Azure IoT Hub (Node.js)

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In this tutorial, you begin by learning the basics of working with Raspberry Pi that's running Raspbian. You then learn how to seamlessly connect your devices to the cloud by using Azure IoT Hub. For Windows 10 IoT Core samples, go to the Windows Dev Center.

Don't have a kit yet? Try Raspberry Pi online simulator. Or buy a new kit here.

What you do

• Create an IoT hub.
• Register a device for Pi in your IoT hub.
• Set up Raspberry Pi.
• Run a sample application on Pi to send sensor data to your IoT hub.

What you learn

• How to create an Azure IoT hub and get your new device connection string.
• How to connect Pi with a BME280 sensor.
• How to collect sensor data by running a sample application on Pi.
• How to send sensor data to your IoT hub.

What you need

• A Raspberry Pi 2 or Raspberry Pi 3 board.
• An Azure subscription. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
• A monitor, a USB keyboard, and mouse that connects to Pi.
• A Mac or PC that is running Windows or Linux.
• An internet connection.
• A 16 GB or above microSD card.
• A USB-SD adapter or microSD card to burn the operating system image onto the microSD card.
• A 5-volt 2-amp power supply with the 6-foot micro USB cable.

The following items are optional:

• An assembled Adafruit BME280 temperature, pressure, and humidity sensor.
• A breadboard.
• 6 F/M jumper wires.
• A diffused 10-mm LED.

Note

If you don't have the optional items, you can use simulated sensor data.

Create an IoT hub

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Retrieve connection string for IoT hub

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Register a new device in the IoT hub

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Set up Raspberry Pi

Install the Raspbian operating system for Pi

Prepare the microSD card for installation of the Raspbian image.

1. Download Raspbian.

   a. Download Raspbian Stretch (the .zip file).

   [!WARNING] Please use above link to download raspbian-2017-07-5 zip image. The latest version of Raspbian images has some known issues with Wiring-Pi Node, which might cause failure in your next steps.

   b. Extract the Raspbian image to a folder on your computer.

2. Install Raspbian to the microSD card.

   a. Download and install the Etcher SD card burner utility.

   b. Run Etcher and select the Raspbian image that you extracted in step 1.

   c. Select the microSD card drive. Etcher may have already selected the correct drive.

   d. Click Flash to install Raspbian to the microSD card.

   e. Remove the microSD card from your computer when installation is complete. It's safe to remove the microSD card directly because Etcher automatically ejects or unmounts the microSD card upon completion.

   f. Insert the microSD card into Pi.

Enable SSH and I2C

1. Connect Pi to the monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

2. Start Pi and then log in Raspbian by using pi as the user name and raspberry as the password.

3. Click the Raspberry icon > Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration.

   

4. On the Interfaces tab, set I2C and SSH to Enable, and then click OK. If you don't have physical sensors and want to use simulated sensor data, this step is optional.

   

Note

To enable SSH and I2C, you can find more reference documents on raspberrypi.org and Adafruit.com.

Connect the sensor to Pi

Use the breadboard and jumper wires to connect an LED and a BME280 to Pi as follows. If you don’t have the sensor, skip this section.

The BME280 sensor can collect temperature and humidity data. The LED blinks when the device sends a message to the cloud.

For sensor pins, use the following wiring:

Start (Sensor & LED)	End (Board)	Cable Color
VDD (Pin 5G)	3.3V PWR (Pin 1)	White cable
GND (Pin 7G)	GND (Pin 6)	Brown cable
SDI (Pin 10G)	I2C1 SDA (Pin 3)	Red cable
SCK (Pin 8G)	I2C1 SCL (Pin 5)	Orange cable
LED VDD (Pin 18F)	GPIO 24 (Pin 18)	White cable
LED GND (Pin 17F)	GND (Pin 20)	Black cable

Click to view Raspberry Pi 2 & 3 pin mappings for your reference.

After you've successfully connected BME280 to your Raspberry Pi, it should be like below image.

Connect Pi to the network

Turn on Pi by using the micro USB cable and the power supply. Use the Ethernet cable to connect Pi to your wired network or follow the instructions from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to connect Pi to your wireless network. After your Pi has been successfully connected to the network, you need to take a note of the IP address of your Pi.

Note

Make sure that Pi is connected to the same network as your computer. For example, if your computer is connected to a wireless network while Pi is connected to a wired network, you might not see the IP address in the devdisco output.

Run a sample application on Pi

Clone sample application and install the prerequisite packages

1. Connect to your Raspberry Pi with one of the following SSH clients from your host computer:

   Windows Users

   a. Download and install PuTTY for Windows.

   b. Copy the IP address of your Pi into the Host name (or IP address) section and select SSH as the connection type.

   

   Mac and Ubuntu Users

   Use the built-in SSH client on Ubuntu or macOS. You might need to run ssh pi@<ip address of pi> to connect Pi via SSH.

   [!NOTE] The default username is pi and the password is raspberry.

2. Install Node.js and NPM to your Pi.

   First check your Node.js version.

   node -v

   If the version is lower than 4.x, or if there is no Node.js on your Pi, install the latest version.

   curl -sL http://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash
   sudo apt-get -y install nodejs

3. Clone the sample application.

   git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/iot-hub-node-raspberrypi-client-app

4. Install all packages for the sample. The installation includes Azure IoT device SDK, BME280 Sensor library, and Wiring Pi library.

   cd iot-hub-node-raspberrypi-client-app
   sudo npm install

   [!NOTE] It might take several minutes to finish this installation process depending on your network connection.

Configure the sample application

1. Open the config file by running the following commands:

   nano config.json

   

   There are two items in this file you can configure. The first one is interval, which defines the time interval (in milliseconds) between messages sent to the cloud. The second one is simulatedData, which is a Boolean value for whether to use simulated sensor data or not.

   If you don't have the sensor, set the simulatedData value to true to make the sample application create and use simulated sensor data.

2. Save and exit by typing Control-O > Enter > Control-X.

Run the sample application

Run the sample application by running the following command:

sudo node index.js '<YOUR AZURE IOT HUB DEVICE CONNECTION STRING>'

Note

Make sure you copy-paste the device connection string into the single quotes.

You should see the following output that shows the sensor data and the messages that are sent to your IoT hub.

Next steps

You’ve run a sample application to collect sensor data and send it to your IoT hub. To see the messages that your Raspberry Pi has sent to your IoT hub or send messages to your Raspberry Pi, see the Use Azure IoT Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code to send and receive messages between your device and IoT Hub.

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