Sending Cloud-To-Device message for devices provisoned through IoT-central

Question

I have been reading the documentation of this new SaaS offering, but I do not see any mention about being able to send a message to the device, eg: to switch ON/OFF an e

Answer 1

You can try using Settings there is a setting type called "Toggle". In order to implement it, you can go to your IoT Central Application from the Azure Portal. Then:

• Go to Device Explorer tab

• Select a device

• Click on the "Settings" tab for the device
• Click on the "Edit Template" Button located on the upper right corner
• Under "Library" find and click on "Toggle"

• Enter the settings for the toggle functionality

If you are looking into doing it at scale you could Create and Run a Job

In IoT Central you can manage your connected devices at scale using jobs. The jobs functionality enables you to perform bulk updates to device properties, settings, and commands.