Install AWS IoT Python SDK in Windows

AWS IoT is an IoT platform provided by Amazon to connect devices in cloud. We can use the AWS IoT Python SDK to write Python script to access the AWS IoT platform through MQTT to interact with connected devices. The following are steps of installing the SDK.

Check if the current Python is version 3.

>python -V
Python 3.5.2 ...

I prefer to use Python 3. If it is not, we can download the newest Python 3.5.2 from the website and install it.

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.2/python-3.5.2.exe

Check the OpenSSL version used by the Python.

>>> import ssl
>>> ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION
'OpenSSL 1.0.2h  3 May 2016'

Install the AWS IoT Python SDK from source that contains samples.

>git clone https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python.git
>cd aws-iot-device-sdk-python
>python setup.py install

Indeed, we can also install the SDK from pip, but it doesn't have samples.

>pip install AWSIoTPythonSDK

Run a sample

>cd samples/basicPubSub
>python basicPubSub.py

An error occurs.



This page has a workaround:

https://github.com/aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-python/issues/23
import os
import sys
import AWSIoTPythonSDK
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(AWSIoTPythonSDK.__file__))
# Now the import statement should work
from AWSIoTPythonSDK.MQTTLib import AWSIoTMQTTClient

Run the sample again.

>python basicPubSub.py -h



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