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Test Communications (Device Syncs Disabled)

1. Open two command-line windows on your computer (not the AWS Greengrass core device). One command-line window is for the GG_Switch device and the other is for the GG_TrafficLight device. Both scripts, when executed for the first time, will run the AWS Greengrass discovery service to connect to the AWS Greengrass core (through the internet). After a device has discovered and successfully connected to the AWS Greengrass core, future operations can be executed locally. Before running the following commands, make sure that your computer and the AWS Greengrass core are connected to the internet using the same network.

   For the GG_Switch command-line window, run the following:

   cd path-to-certs-folder
   python lightController.py --endpoint AWS_IOT_ENDPOINT --rootCA root-ca-cert.pem --cert switch.cert.pem --key switch.private.key --thingName GG_TrafficLight --clientId GG_Switch

   For the GG_TrafficLight command-line window, run the following:

   cd path-to-certs-folder
   python trafficLight.py --endpoint AWS_IOT_ENDPOINT --rootCA root-ca-cert.pem --cert light.cert.pem --key light.private.key --thingName GG_TrafficLight --clientId GG_TrafficLight

   Note

   To find the endpoint to use for the AWS_IOT_ENDPOINT placeholder value, open the AWS IoT console and choose Settings.

   Every 20 seconds, the switch updates the shadow state to G, Y, and R, and the light displays its new state, as shown next.

   GG_Switch output:

   

   GG_TrafficLight output:

   

2. In the AWS IoT console, choose your AWS Greengrass group, Devices, and then GG_TrafficLight:

   

   Choose Shadow. For Shadow State, there should not be any updates to this shadow topic after the GG_Switch changes states because the GG_TrafficLight is set to LOCAL SHADOW ONLY as opposed to SHADOW SYNCING TO CLOUD, as discussed in the next section.

3. Press Ctrl + C in the GG_Switch (lightController.py) command-line window and note that the GG_TrafficLight (trafficLight.py) window stops receiving state change messages.