Manage Intel Galileo through the cloud

The MeshCentral project is expecting big changes - a number of really interesting functions will be added on the use of cloud infrastructure for the Internet of things. Today we are announcing three new ways of interoperating MeshCentral and Arduino compatible Intel Galileo cards: messaging, downloading Arduino sketches and managing sketches via a web interface.



Messaging allows you to receive and send messages between Intel Galileo devices and the MeshCentral web interface. This is somewhat similar to a chat involving Intel Galileo cards; communication can occur as one on one, and immediately with several interlocutors. Probably, it is not necessary to say how much easier it now becomes to implement remote control and operation diagnostics. In addition, it is possible to find devices within the same network and interact with them, as well as connect to devices using the Internet, including through NAT and proxy.



Uploading Arduino sketches to MeshCentral, developed by Matt Royer, allows you to transfer Arduino sketches, developed in the standard Intel Galileo Arduino environment, to Intel Galileo devices via the MeshCentral infrastructure. A developer can upload a sketch to one or several Galileo cards with one click on the button. The Arduino environment itself authenticates, loads, and remotely executes sketches. This feature uses remote enumeration of tasks and remote control of processes implemented in Mesh Agent version 175, released just a few days ago.





Now in the Arduino development environment, you can specify "Intel Galileo, controlled through Meshcentral"

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Through the Web Sketch Management System created by Matt Primrose, the user can view all of their Intel Galileo maps connected to the MeshCentral account, and also remotely transfer the sketches to the device and manage them. It is possible to start and stop sketches, while several sketches can work simultaneously. This demonstrates how multiple devices can be controlled through one common web interface.





Web portal turns Intel Galileo into a cloud-driven device.



More information about the new functionality is described in a special document from the file archive , which also includes the new Arduino sketches, the boot extension for the Arduino IDE, and the management website. It should be noted that some features are not only available for Arduino; if you use either other devices and networks, or Intel Galileo with a different operating system, most of the code can be applied to your needs.