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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

You're reading from   MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol Send and receive messages with the MQTT protocol for your IoT solutions.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Lightweight Messaging with MQTT 3.1.1 and Mosquitto FREE CHAPTER 2. Securing an MQTT Mosquitto Server 3. Controlling a Drone with Python 4. Interacting with Sensors in Java 5. Controlling Home Automation in JavaScript 6. Interacting with Actuators in Swift A. Exersise Answers

Defining the topics and commands


We will use the following topic name to publish the commands for a drone: commands/dronename, where dronename must be replaced with a unique name assigned to a drone. For example, if we assign drone01 as the name for a drone that is powered by an Intel Joule 570x board, we will have to publish commands to the commands/drone01 topic and the code that runs on this board will subscribe to this topic to receive messages with commands and react to them.

We will use the following topic name to make the drones publish details about the successfully executed commands: processedcommands/dronename, where dronename must be replaced with a unique name assigned to a drone. For example, if we assign dronepi03 as the name for a drone that is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 board, the client that wants to receive information about successfully processed commands has to subscribe to the processedcommands/dronepi03 topic.

The commands will be sent in a JSON string with a key-value...

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