iotprovision 2.12.4.20

Collection of tools for cloud provisioning of Microchip IoT kits

iotprovision

iotprovision is a command-line utility for provisioning Microchip AVR-IoT, PIC-IoT and SAM-IoT kits for use with various cloud providers.

Overview

iotprovision is available:

• install using pip from pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iotprovision
• browse source code on github: https://github.com/microchip-pic-avr-tools/iotprovision
• read API documentation on github: https://microchip-pic-avr-tools.github.io/iotprovision
• read the changelog on github: https://github.com/microchip-pic-avr-tools/iotprovision/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Command-line interface

Getting help:

iotprovision --help

The amount of logging is controlled by the -v/--verbose option:

iotprovision -v debug

Possible log levels are debug, info, warning, error, critical. Default is info.

Print version info and exit:

iotprovision -V

Print release info and exit:

iotprovision -R

Provision for Amazon Web Services, using sandbox account:

iotprovision -c aws

Provision for Amazon Web Services, using MAR and custom account:

iotprovision -c aws -m mar

Provision for Amazon Web Services, using JITR and custom account:

iotprovision -c aws -m jitr

Provision for Azure:

iotprovision -c azure

Notes for Linux® systems

This package uses pyedbglib and other libraries for USB transport and some udev rules are required. For details see the pyedbglib package: https://pypi.org/project/pyedbglib

Changelog

[2.12] - December 2023

Added

• Added support for SAM-IoT WX v2

Changed

• DSG-5726 Made handling of firmware upgrades for Sequans modem, WINC, and debugger consistent
• DSG-5942 Root certificate update for Azure
• DSG-6661 Updated Sequans firmware (8.0.5.13)
• DSG-6662 Updated bundled WINC Firmware (19.7.7)
• DSG-6854 Updated bundled debugger firmware (1.30.35)
• DSG-5230 Google IoT Core EOL - removed support in provisioning tool

Fixed

• DSG-5724 iotprovision does not take profile into account when doing AWS custom provisioning
• DSG-5744 iotprovision argument --sprov does not work for wifi kits
• DSG-6130 PEP-0440 compliance for iotprovision

[2.10.6] - October 2022

Changed

• DSG-5161 Moved device certificate and private key from slot 0 to slot 18 to conform with Sequans requirements (Sequans FW >= 8.0.5.11)
• DSG-5563 Added notification if Sequans firmware is out of date
• DSG-5008 Switch to using ATdriver from pysequansutils
• DSG-5078 Updated bundled debugger firmware (1.25.116)
• DSG-5458 Added metadata tag for Python 3.10
• DSG-5546 Removed metadata tag for Python 3.6
• DSG-5614 Updated pykitcommander dependency requirement (to use updated provisioning firmware)
• DSG-5618 Improved error reporting for serial port detection
• DSG-5624 Updated pyedbglib dependency requirement for improved serial port detection
• DSG-5628 Changed behaviour of -P switch to override an automatically detected port; Changed -p to -P in pywinc utility.

[2.8.5] - June 2022

Added

• DSG-4600 Support for SAM-IoT provisioning
• DSG-4818 Support for AVR-IoT Cellular Mini provisioning

Changed

• DSG-4868 Removed full stack trace when using info logging
• DSG-5013 Added Amazon root CA bundle as recommended by Amazon (pyawsutils dependency)
• DSG-4214, DSG-4198, DSG-4185, DSG-4360 Provisioning output cosmetic improvements
• DSG-4323, DSG-4297 Debugger firmware upgrade not mandatory after v1.15
• DSG-3019, DSG-3017, DSG-3346, DSG-4188, DSG-4869 improvements to WINC handling

[2.5.21] - December 2021

Added

• DSG-3048 Added option to skip programming provisioning firmware
• DSG-3049 Added certificate blob build and upload (pywinc)
• DSG-3804 Python 3.9 support
• DSG-4175 Temporary click-me link for Azure

Fixed

• DSG-4232, DSG-4330 Improved target firmware interaction stability
• DSG-3491 iotprovision (MAR) incorrect warning on default organization name

Changed

• DSG-4198, DSG-4214, DSG-4295, DSG-2999 Improved output
• DSG-4323 Only upgrade debugger if version is lower than 1.15.479
• DSG-3015 Update pywinc CLI to use pykitcommander
• DSG-3070 No AWS account settings are altered
• DSG-3140 Prevent auto-amazon of iotprovisioning
• DSG-3393 Moved provisioning logic from pyazureutils to iotprovision
• DSG-4177 Bundle latest released nEDBG/PKOB nano FW (1.22.73)
• DSG-3141 Improve novice users CLI experience

[2.1.2] - February 2021

• First public release to PyPi