New Play Thing

  So I recently received hardware from Hackster.com after submittinga project proposal. It’s shiny little Internet-of-Things (IoT) device called SmartEdge Agile. I’ve been playing around with it and I am able to get it up and running in a few tries. One of the issues I had was parining the device to my phone. First it would link but unpairing it will cause the device to deny reconnections. The solution was this new thing I discovered for the device; it connects to the phone using bluetooth AND Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. That means that I had to connect it through the Brainium online portal for it to be linked to my phone. Thanks to the support line at Brainium for helping me resolve this issue. :]

  There are other issues currently plaguing the device though like my gateway not connecting to the online portal and my device not updating to the latest firmware. Urgh. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. Anyways, I did get to try the motion learning and recognition. It’s neat that it can gather multiple sensor data along with the motion recognition in real time. Cool! Definitely will be playing around more with this thing once the software kinks are handled.

Update (05/15/2019): Got my connectivity issue fixed by lowering the IPv4 firewall protection settings on my router. Not the ideal fix but a fix nonetheless.