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Intel Galileo Networking Cookbook

By : Marco Schwartz
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Intel Galileo Networking Cookbook

By: Marco Schwartz

Overview of this book

Arduino is an electronic prototyping platform used by millions of people around the world. Intel Galileo is fully Arduino compatible; hence it combines the high performance of Intel with the simplicity of Arduino Software Development Environment. This makes it the ideal platform to build exciting projects, especially in the field of web-based connected applications and the Internet of Things. The book features several recipes all based on the Intel Galileo board, and that exploit the powerful features of the board. Each chapter explores a given field using the Galileo board. The book is mainly divided in three parts. The first part is all about learning the basics of the Intel Galileo board, but it uses some of the powerful features of the board such as connecting external sensors and complex hardware devices, compared with more basic Arduino boards. Then, the book dives into the topics related to networking and the Internet of Things. You will learn how to run a web server on the board and log data using a cloud-based service. Finally, the book ends with a chapter that aims to build a complete home automation hub using the Galileo board. This chapter uses everything that was learned in the book to make a home automation system using the Galileo board and Arduino.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
9
Index

Controlling your board from anywhere in the world


In this last recipe, we are going to see another way to control your Galileo projects from anywhere. Here, I use the word control, because we are actually going to use this recipe not only to monitor data remotely, but also to send commands to your board from the cloud. Of course, for this application, your board has to be connected to the Internet, via the Ethernet , for example.

We are going to use the MQTT protocol and a service called Lelylan to control our projects from anywhere in the world.

Getting ready

The first step in this recipe is to create an account at Lelylan. This will allow us to control projects from anywhere in the world using a nice dashboard. To do this, go to:

http://lelylan.github.io/devices-dashboard-ng/#/

You will be redirected to your dashboard, where you can create a new device:

When asked about the device type, choose Basic Light. Choose MQTT for the protocol. Once the process is finished, you will be given a client...