Google iot core connection status

问题:

I am using Google IOT core with mongoose os. I wanted to update device connection status to firestore. But i am unable to find event which reports mqtt connection status to pub/sub like when device disconnects or reconnect i.e if device is offline or not.

I am stuck on this problem for days.Any help will be appreciated

回答1:

Update

As @devunwired mentioned in this response it is now possible to monitor Stackdriver logs for disconnect events. You must have at a minimum enabled INFO level logging on your project in IoT Core > Registries > [your registry] > Edit Registry > Select "Info" log level > Click save.

Original Response

There are a few values you can look at that are tracked in device configuration metadata that you could use to know when a device last was online:

1. Last Configuration Send time - sent anytime your device connects / configuration is posted
2. Last Event Time - Last time an event was sent from the device
3. Last State Time - Last time state was sent from the device
4. Last Heartbeat time - Last time MQTT heartbeat was sent

To get you started, here is an example using API explorer that you can fill-in with your project ID, region, registry, and device to query for a specific device's metadata.

For 1...3 you have control over these through device manager and by publishing data. MQTT heartbeat is updated if your device sends an MQTT_PINGREQ message during the "ping period" without other messages getting sent.

At any rate, you could use any of these update time values to see the last time a device was online / functioning. You could query the states of your devices after listing the devices in a registry and could update a Firebase RTDB periodically if that's how you want to report (e.g. using AppEngine TaskQueue). Note that you also just can get these "last connected" values from the Google Cloud Console.

It was said before but we don't have an event for disconnect, just configuration ack, which generally is the connection event. If you want to share state between a device and the device manager, use state messages.

回答2:

Unfortunately, there's no built in way to do this right now as there aren't events on this state.

However, you could implement a hack by sending a message on connect/disconnect from the device that you have a Cloud Function subscribed to the Pub/Sub topic listening for. It's not perfect as it would fail in the case where the device disconnected unexpectedly.

回答3:

The AWS IoT platform publishes messages on a special MQTT topic (prefixed with $aws) when your device connects/disconnects. You can easily use these to monitor these events - however, you should be aware that the MQTT protocol is designed to be robust to a poor networking conditions and the broker on the AWS side probably doesn't think it's a bit deal to disconnect a client. The broker expects that the client will just reconnect and queue messages for a moment during that process (which can be a big deal on a microcontroller).

All that being said, the AWS topics you would watch are:

$aws/events/presence/connected/{clientId}

and

$aws/events/presence/disconnected/{clientId}

and the documentation for these (and other) lifecycle events are located: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/life-cycle-events.html

回答4:

There currently is no way to do this, that i've been able to find (a year later after this original post). I posted a question here on SO regarding this as well, with more details and link to example code I had to use for handling this: Google Core IoT Device Offline Event or Connection Status