Connect Grove Indoor Environment Kit for Intel Edison to QNAP NAS via QIoT Suite Lite

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This tutorial covers setting up a Grove Indoor Environment Kit followed by connecting the devices to QIoT Suite Lite.


Setup your Grove Indoor Environment Kit for Intel Edison
1.1 What you will need
An Intel Edison board
Grove Indoor Environment Kit for Intel Edison
A Micro B to Type A USB cable
A power supply with at least 7-15V DC and 1500mA
A Wi-fi access point

The Intel Edison and NAS must be under the same LAN.
1.2 Set up Intel Edison
If you have not set up your Intel Edison, follow these guides for your respective operating system.

Windows (32-bits)
1.3 Configure and test your devices

• Step 1: Assemble the Intel Edison board
  Step 2: Assemble the Indoor Environment Kit
  Step 3: Connect the hardware

Use a 26AWG Grove Cable with the following connections:

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The final device kit will be assembled similar to below image.

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Step 4: Run setup tools
Use the setup tool to install the latest firmware on the Intel® Edison development board. The setup tool also lets you enable SSH and Wi-Fi* connectivity to your board, as described in the steps to follow.

Take a note of the Edison's IP address as it will be required later.

1.4 Install Node.js and required libraries
Open a terminal application on your computer and connect to Intel Edison.
Install Node.js and related libraries
root@Edison:~# echo "src intel-iotdk https://iotdk.intel.com/repos/3.5/intel ... opkg/i586/" > /etc/opkg/intel-iotdk.conf
root@Edison:~# opkg update
root@Edison:~# opkg upgrade mraa upm
root@Edison:~# opkg install nodejs

Create your device in QIoT Suite Lite
2.1 Install QIoT Suite Lite
Install QIoT Suite Lite from the QTS App Center.

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Open and sign in to QIoT Suite Lite using the admin account.

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2.2 Import a new sample application
Download the sample application file: "iot_inbox.json" from Github.
Import the "iot_inbox.json" file in the IoT Application Panel.

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Click the created application: iot_inbox

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Connect a Device by MQTTS

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Download Certificates

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Download resource info file

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For more tutorial, please visit this linkhttps://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial ... suite-lite