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Bluetooth Low Energy BLE devices with Azure IoT Edge

One of the major reasons for utilizing an Azure Iot Edge Gateway is to connect devices to the internet that can’t directly establish a connection themselves. A very common case are Bluetooth beacons, that can provide sensor data through a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection but are not able to send this information directly to an Azure IoT Hub.

For this scenario a bridge or gateway is required to create an IoT message from the Bluetooth payload. This is called Protocol Translation and can be achieved by creating a custom IoT Edge Module. Interestingly enough Microsoft has still not managed to provide a sample or best practice on how to do this with the IoT Edge Runtime V2, so here’s how we did it in our latest IoT project.

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Azure IoT Edge Identity Translation: Getting Started

In a lot of IoT solutions Gateways play important roles. They can help connect downstream devices to the Cloud through Access Points, provide offline caching capabilities or translate protocols that are not suitable for direct internet access like Bluetooth. With Azure IoT Edge Microsoft has a great product for these kinds of devices which allows you to deploy custom docker modules for different kinds of tasks like evaluating data on the Edge before sending everything to a connected Azure IoT Hub.

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Building static websites with Azure Functions, mustache & Azure Storage

In this post I will show you how to turn some dynamic data into a static website using a timer-triggered Azure Function (written in nodejs) & mustache with static website hosting for Azure Storage.

For this demo I’ll create a simple, personalized start page showing some headlines I grab from a WordPress site and also adding a few links I often use. There are certainly way more interesting and useful scenarios for this but it should help you get started with your own ideas.

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Building static websites with Azure Functions, mustache & Azure Storage

In diesem Artikel zeige ich, wie man dynamische Daten mithilfe einer zeitgesteuerten Azure Function (in nodejs) & mustache eine statische Website generieren kann, welche in Azure Storage gehostet wird.

Für diese Demo bauen wir eine simple, personalisierte Startseite, die aktuelle Schlagzeilen eines WordPress-Blogs und ein paar weitere Links anzeigt. Sicherlich nicht das spannendste Projekt, aber ausreichend, um ein paar interessante Dinge zu zeigen.

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Remember to set the Content Type when using Static website hosting for Azure Storage

Currently I’m playing around with the new Static website hosting for Azure Storage feature which has recently been launched in public preview. This allows you to serve static web content (HTML, CSS, JS, images) directly from a dedicated blob directory inside Azure Storage without setting up any kind of web app or proxy function.

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Richtiger Content Type bei statischen Websites in Azure Storage

Aktuell experimentiere ich mit dem neuen Static website hosting for Azure Storage Feature, welches seit kurzem als Public Preview verfügbar ist. Hiermit lässt sich statischer Webcontent (HTML, CSS, JS, Bilder) direkt aus einem speziellen Azure Storage Blob-Verzeichnis aufrufen, ohne dass man hierfür noch irgendwelche Proxies einrichten muss.

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