Tutorial: Preparing your devices for the Amazon IoT Device Client - Amazon IoT Core
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Tutorial: Preparing your devices for the Amazon IoT Device Client

This tutorial walks you through the initialization of your Raspberry Pi to prepare it for the subsequent tutorials in this learning path.

The goal of this tutorial is to install the current version of the device’s operating system and make sure that you can communicate with your device in the context of your development environment.

Prerequisites

Before you start this tutorial, make sure that you have the items listed in Prerequisites to building demos with the Amazon IoT Device Client available and ready to use.

This tutorial takes about 90 minutes to complete.

In this tutorial, you'll:

  • Install and update the operating system of your device.

  • Install and verify any additional software needed to run the tutorials.

  • Test your device's connectivity and install the required certificates.

After you complete this tutorial, the next tutorial prepares your device for the demos that use the Amazon IoT Device Client.

Procedures in this tutorial