AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5 Starter Kit - Getting started
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Setup your AWS account and permissions for IoT development
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Open a terminal application on your host machine (e.g., TeraTerm or Docklight for Windows or
CoolTerm for Mac) and select the port corresponding to the evaluation kit. Configure the terminal
application as follows
–
and take special note of the first three items:
•
End of line: line feed (i.e. 0x0a,
not
0x0d)
•
Local echo: yes
•
Flow control: none
•
Baud rate:
115200
•
Bits:
8
•
Parity:
none
•
Stop:
1
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u-blox m-center and tools such as PuTTY will NOT work with the u-blox AWS IoT ExpressLink
SARA-R5 module since those tools use carriage return as a line ending when sending to the
module, not line feed.
For a quick check, turn the cellular module on by pressing the
“
SARA O
n”
button on the carrier board
for around one second. Your terminal window should show the welcome message
Welcome to u-blox
AWS IoT ExpressLink SARA-R5
from the cellular module
1
. In the terminal window type
AT
and press
<return>. If you receive the answer
OK
, congratulations! You have successfully connected the
evaluation kit to your host machine.
Keep the terminal application open and connected, as it is needed for the subsequent steps.
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Setup your AWS account and permissions for
IoT development
Refer to the instructions at
. Follow the steps outlined at that link to:
•
sign up for an AWS account,
•
create a user and grant permissions,
•
open the AWS IoT console.
Pay special attention to the notes.
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One or two unprintable characters may appear before the welcome message; these are part of the module boot sequence and
can be ignored.
