AWS IoT Triggers

Currently, Connect iPaaS provides one trigger, New event or message received, for AWS IoT.

Figure 1. Trigger for AWS IoT Application on Connect iPaaS

New event or message received

This event triggers the workflow when a new event or message received on a particular topic. Optionally, you can also specify if you want to monitor a particular event for any particular device.

In the above Figure 2, you can select the Things in the AWS and according to the thing selected, you can select the device and fill the Topics name where you want to monitor the events.

Set up Trigger for your Workflow

After selecting the trigger, you will have to select AWS IoT parameters like the things, devices and the topic for the selected trigger.

Figure 2. Set up AWS IoT Trigger on Connect iPaaS

In the above Figure 2, you can select the Things in the AWS and according to the thing selected, you can select the device and fill the Topics name where you want to monitor the events.

AWS IOT Parameters

Thing Type

Select the Things Type of your AWS IOT device type.

Topic Name

Select the Topic Name on which you want Connect to listen for messages.

How to find the Topic Name?

On your AWS IoT Dashboard go to the Services tab and search for the IoT core. On the left side, you can find MQTT client similar to the placement of test shown in the screenshot. When you click on the test there is an input field subscription topic where you need to put topic name the same which you want to use in Connect iPaaS.

Figure 3. AWS IoT on AWS console

Figure 4. Subsription Topic on AWS console

Device

Select the Device from your AWS IoT whose events you want to monitor in your workflow.