What is this?

This is an express.js app that can communicate with AWS Thing Shadows for our in-house telemeatics units. There is also a front-end app that allows commands to be sent to these devices.

To get started:

1. Clone this repo
2. Create a .env file with the following

aws_access_key_id = <aws_access_key_id>
aws_secret_access_key = <aws_secret_access_key>
region = <aws_region>
endpoint = <aws_thing_shadow_api_endpoint>

3. Run npm install
4. Run npm start to run the app or npm run dev to run it with nodemon which will start the server again when documents are saved
5. To visitthe management console, visit http://127.0.0.1:2080/shadows/manage

REST routes:

• GET: /shadows: returns a list of Thing Shadows that can be accessed via the url in the .env file
• GET: /shadows/manage: returns the web app for sending commands to shadows
• GET: /shadows/:thingName: returns the current shadow of the Thing with the given name
• PUT: /shadows/:thingName/:action: executes that given action on the given Thing. The list of actions can be found in the telemActions.js file.