Azure IoT Hub is a fully managed Microsoft service that enables reliable and secure bi-directional communications between millions of IoT devices and a solution backend.
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What is the difference between Azure IoT Hub and Azure IoT Central?
I used Azure IoT Hub earlier and now I found a new topic Azure IoT Central which looks as same as the Azure IoT Hub.
I am confused with the difference between these IoT Services, Can anyone explain me the difference and which one is better between…

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How to test Messages arriving in Azure IoTHub
I have an event generator connected and publishing messages into an IoT hub. How do I check what message have arrived? I'd be interested in different ways to determine (programmatically, dashboard, etc)

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Why Primary key and Secondary key in Azure IoT hub?
When creating a shared access policy or registering a device in Azure IoT hub, there will be a Primary key and Secondary key pair generated. And I noticed I can connect a device to IoT hub using either Primary key or Secondary key.
So, what's the…

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TCP support in Azure IoT Hub
Azure IoT Hub Supports AMQP, MQTT, HTTP protocols. In order to customize these protocols we have Azure IoT protocol gateway. I can find good samples on MQTT protocol customization. I need some sample codes for TCP based protocol customization using…

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purpose of Azure iot hub device-to-cloud partitions
When creating a new Azure IOT Hub you are asked how many device-to-cloud partitions you need. You can select between 2-32 partitions for standard tiers.
I understand that the SKU and number of units determine the maximum daily quota of…

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Integration test in python
I have a python project that I want to test. I already have unit test with unittest but I need to do integration tests.
For that, I have two applications: the real one that I have to test, and a "testing" application that will send requests to the…

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Azure IoT Hub - Save telemetry best practice
I am working on a IoT solution that will save weather data.
I have googled for some days now on how to set up the backend.
I am going to use Azure IoT Hub for handling communication, but the next step is the problem.
I want to store the telemetry to…

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Azure Functions - how to set up IoTHubTrigger for my IoTHub messages?
How do I setup and configure an IoTHubTrigger correctly to trigger an Azure Function (C#) for my IoTHub messages? Where and how do I plug in my IoTHub's connection string?

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Azure IoT Edge vs Protocol Gateway (IoT Hub)
Our existing IoT Platform uses Azure Protocol Gateway and is working well. I just realized that MS Azure has launched a newer version for Protocol Gateway called IoT Edge. I was just looking for the new feature available in IoT Edge and now I'm…

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Azure IoT Hub, EventHub and Functions
I have an IoTHub with a route that points to an EventHub which triggers a Functions.
I'm having problem getting the DeviceId and other IoT Hub properties from the event object without adding those explicitly to the payload.
If I set the input type…

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Arduino MKR1000 How to send Message to Azure IoT Hub
I am trying to setup a basic example of sending a message from the Arduino MKR1000 to the Azure IOT Event Hub but can't seem to get any of the online examples to work and I am new to Arduino.
Any pointers for a simple working example?
I tried this…

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Azure Function Event Hub Trigger reliability
I'm a bit confused regarding the EventHubTrigger for Azure functions.
I've got an IoT Hub, and am using its eventhub-compatible endpoint to trigger an Azure function that is going to process and store the received data.
However, if my function fails…

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High CPU Azure Worker Role
so this is a fairly broad question but have run out of ideas.
We are currently running 2 worker role instances that does the following :
Monitors and processes IoT Hub events by spawning N threads for each batch.
Monitors and processes…

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Azure IoT hub is taking more than 2 sec to push messages to mqtt device
We have a number of devices (around 50-60 devices) connecting via MQTT to IoTHub. To save battery, our devices wake up once every 5 min, stay awake for 1 sec to get any messages and if there is nothing they goes back to sleep. This was working fine…

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Streaming Analytics job not receiving inputs from IOT hub
I followed a IOT Hub tutorial and got it working. I then created a Stream Analytics job and used the above as an Input (which upon test connection works).
However I do not see any inputs being received. When running a sample test I get the…

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