AWS IoT ExpressLink programmer's guide v1.2

This document defines the Application Programming Interface (API) that all AWS IoT ExpressLink compliant connectivity modules are required to implement to connect any host processor to the AWS cloud.

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Topics

1 Overview
2 Hardware
3 Run states
4 ExpressLink commands
5 Messaging
6 Configuration Dictionary
7 Event handling
8 Over the Air Updates
9 AWS IoT Services
10 Additional services
11 Provisioning
12 Bluetooth Low Energy
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AWS IoT ExpressLink commands

See these sections for descriptions of AWS IoT ExpressLink commands in the following general categories:

Power and connection control (CONNECT, ...)
Messaging topic model (SEND, GET, ... )
Dictionary data access (CONF, ...)
Event handling commands (EVENT, ...)
Diagnostic commands (DIAG, ...)
OTA commands (OTA)
- Host OTA certificate update
- Over the Wire (OTW) module firmware update command
AWS IoT Device Defender (using CONF)
AWS IoT Device Shadow (SHADOW)
Additional services (TIME?, WHERE?)
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

Tables

Table 1 - Error codes
Table 2 - Configuration Dictionary Persistent Keys
Table 3 - Configuration dictionary non-persistent keys
Table 4 - ExpressLink event codes
Table 5 - Reserved OTA file type codes (0-255)
Table 6 - ExpressLink Defender metrics

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