diff --git a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/README.md b/examples/protocol-gateway-example/README.md
index 9f04cd87f2..e960bcd2ee 100644
--- a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/README.md
+++ b/examples/protocol-gateway-example/README.md
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ However, it can also be configured to connect to a local instance.
 
 By default, the gateway listens on port `6666` on the loopback device (`127.0.0.1`). This can be changed in the
 `application.yml` file or by means of corresponding command line arguments. In the same way the connection to the AMQP
-adapter can be configured. By default, the gateway connects to the Hono Sandbox' AMQP adapter using `gw@DEFAULT_TENANT`
-as the username.
+adapter can be configured. By default, the gateway connects to the AMQP adapter of the Hono Sandbox using 
+`gw@DEFAULT_TENANT` as the username.
 
 ## Starting the Gateway
 
diff --git a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/scripts/create_hono_device.sh b/examples/protocol-gateway-example/scripts/create_hono_device.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 54d233fcaf..0000000000
--- a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/scripts/create_hono_device.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#*******************************************************************************
-# Copyright (c) 2020, 2022 Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
-#
-# See the NOTICE file(s) distributed with this work for additional
-# information regarding copyright ownership.
-#
-# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
-# terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which is available at
-# http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
-#*******************************************************************************
-
-# A simple shell script to get IP addresses for hono-service-device-registry-ext, hono-dispatch-router-ext and hono-adapter-amqp and creates a device id and password
-
-# prior: setup hono in kubernetes namespace "hono"
-REGISTRY_IP=$(kubectl -n hono get service hono-service-device-registry-ext --output='jsonpath={.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
-echo "REGISTRY_IP=${REGISTRY_IP}"
-export REGISTRY_IP
-AMQP_NETWORK_IP=$(kubectl -n hono get service hono-dispatch-router-ext --output='jsonpath={.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')
-echo "AMQP_NETWORK_IP=${AMQP_NETWORK_IP}"
-export AMQP_NETWORK_IP
-AMQP_ADAPTER_PORT=$(kubectl -n hono get service hono-adapter-amqp --output='jsonpath={.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].port}')
-echo "AMQP_ADAPTER_IP=${AMQP_ADAPTER_IP}"
-export AMQP_ADAPTER_PORT
-
-# Get example tenant or
-export MY_TENANT="DEFAULT_TENANT"
-# register new tenant
-# export MY_TENANT=$(curl -X POST http://$REGISTRY_IP:28080/v1/tenants 2>/dev/null | jq -r .id)
-
-echo "MY_TENANT=\"${MY_TENANT}\""
-
-# register new device
-MY_DEVICE=$(curl -X POST "http://${REGISTRY_IP}:28080/v1/devices/${MY_TENANT}" 2>/dev/null | jq -r .id)
-echo "MY_DEVICE=\"${MY_DEVICE}\""
-export MY_DEVICE
-
-# set credential secret for device
-export MY_PWD="dummyDevicePassword"
-echo "MY_PWD=\"${MY_PWD}\""
-curl -i -X PUT -H "content-type: application/json" --data-binary "[{
-  \"type\": \"hashed-password\",
-  \"auth-id\": \"${MY_DEVICE}\",
-  \"secrets\": [{ \"pwd-plain\": \"${MY_PWD}\" }]
-}]" "http://${REGISTRY_IP}:28080/v1/credentials/${MY_TENANT}/${MY_DEVICE}"
diff --git a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/src/main/resources/application.yml b/examples/protocol-gateway-example/src/main/resources/application.yml
index eb90d553c7..2ea52d84fe 100644
--- a/examples/protocol-gateway-example/src/main/resources/application.yml
+++ b/examples/protocol-gateway-example/src/main/resources/application.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ gateway:
    insecurePortBindAddress: "127.0.0.1"
   amqp:
     host: hono.eclipseprojects.io
-    port: 5672
+    port: 5671
+    tlsEnabled: true
     username: gw@DEFAULT_TENANT
     password: gw-secret
     serverRole: AMQP adapter