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I have a Groov RIO from Opto22 and would like to connect it to Azure IoT Central for device telemetry, Where do i get started? I know that the Groov RIO supports MQTT but it doe snot seem like the Azure IoT Central is an MQTT broker!
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Hello @cq-fm ,
Azure IoT Central is built on top of Azure IoT PaaS resources like the Azure IoT Hub, a cloud gateway for devices.
The IoT Hub supports native MQTT communication apart from the IoT Device SDKs offered.
Check this thread regarding connecting a device to IoT Central without using the SDKs.
Hi @Sander van de Velde ,
I found out that the Node-Red platform has built-in Azure support nodes, but unfortunately the firmware on the Groov RIO needs to be updated before the npm package manager can install those nodes. I am waiting on the new firmware to test this out.