NAME

gcloud iot devices commands send - sends a command to a device

SYNOPSIS

gcloud iot devices commands send (--command-data=COMMAND_DATA | --command-file=COMMAND_FILE) (--device=DEVICE : --region=REGION --registry=REGISTRY) [--subfolder=SUBFOLDER] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]

DESCRIPTION

Sends a command to a device.

EXAMPLES

To send a simple command to a device in 'my-registry' and region 'us-central1' using a special command subfolder, run:

$ gcloud iot devices commands send --region=us-central1 \ --registry=my-registry --device=my-device \ --command-data="restart job" \ --subfolder="/jobs/metric_collector"

To send a command containing special characters to a device in 'my-registry' and region 'us-central1', run:

$ gcloud iot devices commands send --region=us-central1 \ --registry=my-registry --device=my-device \ --command-file=/path/to/command.file

REQUIRED FLAGS

Exactly one of these must be specified:
--command-data=COMMAND_DATA

The data for this command, as a string. For any values that contain special characters (in the context of your shell), use the --command-file flag instead.

--command-file=COMMAND_FILE

Path to a local file containing the data for this command.

Device resource - The device you want to send commands to. The arguments in

this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways. To set the project attribute:

provide the argument --device on the command line with a fully specified name;

provide the argument --project on the command line;

set the property core/project.

This must be specified.

--device=DEVICE

ID of the device or fully qualified identifier for the device. To set the device attribute:

  • provide the argument --device on the command line.

This flag argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--region=REGION

The name of the Cloud IoT region. To set the region attribute:

  • provide the argument --device on the command line with a fully specified name;

  • provide the argument --region on the command line.

--registry=REGISTRY

The name of the Cloud IoT registry. To set the registry attribute:

  • provide the argument --device on the command line with a fully specified name;

  • provide the argument --registry on the command line.

OPTIONAL FLAGS

--subfolder=SUBFOLDER

The commands subfolder to append to the topic path.

This field must not have more than 256 characters, and must not contain any MQTT wildcards ("+" or "#") or null characters.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

API REFERENCE

This command uses the cloudiot/v1 API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/iot

NOTES

These variants are also available:

$ gcloud alpha iot devices commands send

$ gcloud beta iot devices commands send