Azure IoT Hub How to set Epoch Value of an Azure Function

Question

So, I have an IoT Hub in Azure that I send messages to, from my Raspberry Pi. An Azure function & a Web App receive these messages, and it works okay, one by one.

The issue that pertains is when I try to receive messages with the Web Application and the Azure function at the same time. I keep getting an exception in the Web Application that says that the Epoch Value of another receiver is 12. The other receiver, here, is my Azure Function.

As I think I've understood, the Epoch value of my Azure Function has to be set to 0, to enable multiple receivers from the same IoT Hub.

My question is how do I set the Epoch value of an Azure Function Event Hub Trigger? And is there another way to work around this?

Answer 1

Try using Azure IoT Hub consumer groups, if you have several consuming applications with independent views. They enable multiple consuming applications to each view of the event stream, and to read the stream independently.