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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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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

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

Testing the MQTT TLS client authentication with MQTT.fx


Now, we will use the MQTT.fx GUI utility to generate another MQTT client that uses an encrypted connection and TLS client authentication to publish messages to a topic that matches the topic filter we used for the subscription, sensors/drone25/altitude. We have to make changes to the connection options we used when we enabled TLS and specify the client certificate and client key files. Follow the next steps:

  1. Launch MQTT.fx, select local mosquitto in the dropdown located on the upper-left corner, and click on the configuration icon on the right-hand side of this dropdown and on the left-hand side of the Connect button. MQTT.fx will display the Edit Connection Profiles dialog box with different options for the connection profile named local mosquitto.

  2. Make sure the value specified in Broker Port is 8883 .

  3. Press the SSL/TLS button.

  4. Make sure the Enable SSL/TLS checkbox is activated.

  5. Activate the Self signed certificates radio button.

  6. Enter...

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