Kiwi: BLE to MQTT gateway

Kiwi is a BLE to MQTT gateway that provides the following functionality:

• Catch BLE beacons and forward them to the specified MQTT topic
• Provide set of commands (driven by MQTT or REST) to:
  • Scan bluetooth network for devices
  • Connect to a given device
  • Scan a given device for characteristics
  • Read a given characteristic
  • Write to a given characteristic
  • Subscribe to notifications
• Configure gatway to read BLE devices and forward data to the cloud (MQTT)

Quick start

1. Pick one of the supported ESP32 devices. We suggest to choose from recommended devboards
2. Connect your device to your workstation via USB
3. Follow steps 1,2,3 of mos setup
4. In the mos UI, run mos flash https://mongoose-os.com/downloads/kiwi.zip command
5. Follow steps 7,8 of mos setup

When done, you should have your ESP32 device flashed, provisioned to WiFi, and connected to mDash. Now, you need to catch notifications from it. Read the mDash notification section on how to catch notifications from your devices.

If you run an example Node.js code provided by the mDash doc, you should see BLE advertisement printed on a console, e.g.:

Got message: {"id":"e0a560b5b1d7d70deed4b811","name":"rpc.out.BLE.Adv",
"data":{"mac":"7f:d3:87:0b:ac:d5","rssi":-16,
"adv":"02011a14ff4c0001000000000400000000000010000000006c1dfd3f7fd387",
"parsed":[{"type":1,"name":"flags","value":"1a14"},{"type":255,"name":"manufacturer_specific_data",
"value":"4c0001000000000400000000000010000000006c"}, {"type":29,"name":"paring_rand_256",
"value":"fd3f7fd38700f0ffffff01000000000000009bc6e7f5b505d74100000000000000008c1dfd3f841dfd3f06000000848e0f40b0f4fd3f00000000333930313036fd3f991dfd3f5492fd3f00000000a81dfd3f00000000000000007270633f281efd3f70c10e404cc10e402cc1"}]},
"at":"2018-12-16T22:55:22.977011429Z"}

Using MQTT

Kiwi firmware could send BLE advertisements to mDash, or to any MQTT service. In order to use MQTT, please follow the steps below:

• License your device, per licensing instructions
• Configure MQTT:
  • For generic/private MQTT server, run

    mos config-set mqtt.enable=true mqtt.server=HOST:PORT

  • For AWS, follow AWS guide's "Setup AWS IoT" and "Setup device" chapters
  • For Google, follow GCP guide's "Setup Google IoT Core" and "Setup device" chapters
  • For Azure, follow Azure guide's "Setup Azure IoT Hub" and "Setup device" chapters
  • For Watson, follow Watson guide's "Quick setup" chapter

By default, Kiwi reports to the kiwi MQTT topic. You can change the default by running

mos config-set kiwi.topic=YOUR_TOPIC

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