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Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

You're reading from   Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT Build connected IoT devices with Arduino and MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341782
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. The Internet of Things in a Nutshell FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Architecture of an IoT Prototype 3. Getting Started with MQTT 4. Setting Up a Lab Environment 5. Building Your Own Automatic Pet Food Dispenser 6. Building a Smart E-Ink To-Do List 7. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 1 8. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 2 9. Presenting Your Own Prototype 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making your device smart

The detection of all of our cube sides is working now. Let's add MQTT to our code base:

  1. Open the MQTT example code from this book's repository: general/arduino/mqtt_shiftr_send_receive_example.

As we did in the other projects, let's run this test-code first before we integrate it into our main sketch to make sure the Wi-Fi, as well as the MQTT connection, is working.

  1. Enter your Wi-Fi name (WIFI_SSID) and Wi-Fi password (WIFI_PASSWORD). You can also customize MQTT_DEVICE_NAME. You will see it on shiftr.io when you look at the network graph.
  2. Pick any name you like here, but stick to the characters a-z, 0-9, and dash (-). Other characters might work as well but might also lead to problems with certain MQTT clients or servers.
  3. Try to make your device name unique (for example, by appending a few random numbers). The device name...
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