MQTT is becoming the protocol of IOT.

The best way of understanding MQTT is to use it, and to do that you need two things:

1. An MQTT broker
2. An MQTT client

Rather than installing your own broker (mosquitto) I recommend that you first start with a public test broker like test.mosquitto.org.

I also recommend you use a simple MQTT client like

• MQTTLens -Chrome extension -Tutorial here
• MQTT Client –Android App

The most popular MQTT clients are the mosquitto_sub and pub clients which come with Mosquitto so you will need to install mosquitto first to gain access to these clients

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An MQTT broker severs as a hub for all MQTT messages and so it is important that it is always online and if not that you are ware of this.

There are several ways of monitoring the broker.

• Using the Ping Command
• Using the $SYS topic
• Sending messages through it.
• Monitoring Connection Status

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MQTTbox comes in tow forms:

• An add-on to the chrome browser
• A nodejs App

In this tutorial we will be using the chrome browser add-on.

MQTTbox lets you publish messages to an MQTT broker, subscribe to MQTT topics,receive messages and do load testing.

It is a more feature rich tool than MQTT-Lens which is also a chrome browser add-on. (more…)

MQTT supports three QOS levels which are designed to ensure message delivery.

• QOS 0 – Once (not guaranteed)
• QOS 1 – At Least Once (guaranteed)
• QOS 2 – Only Once (guaranteed)

How they work is discussed in the understanding QOS tutorial.

In this article I want to delve more into the pros and cons of using these QOS levels and offer some guidelines on when to use them. (more…)

With the emphasis on IOT security SSL has become the de facto solution for MQTT connections.

In fact the majority of the questions I get are SSL related .

What I find surprising is that not many appear to be considering using payload encryption instead of SSL and certificates. (more…)

My Books
Just a reminder that I have several books available on Kindle. Most of the content is covered on the site but the books let you take it offline.

Books

• MQTT for Beginners .
• JSON and JavaScript Workbook
• MQTT and Python for Beginners
• The Mosquitto Broker For Complete Beginners

Arduino can be equipped with various sensors like temperature and humidity and you will have a need to send these sensor values over MQTT.

In this tutorial we will look at sending and receiving integer and float data over MQTT using string data and buffer data. (more…)

MQTT is a connection oriented protocol which means that you need to establish  a connection before you can send data.

However what happens after the data is sent? Do you disconnect? or stay connected?

To answer the question you must understand the data that is being sent.In particular you must consider. (more…)

Paho MQTT-SN Gateway can act as a transparent gateway or aggregating gateway depending on settings in the configuration file.

The Gateway enables MQTT-SN clients to send messages to other MQTT-SN clients and to MQTT clients. (more…)

The Paho python MQTT client will accept a string payload and also a binary payload in the msg field.

The receiver will need to know what type of data is in the payload. and decode it accordingly.

When sending JSON data the data is a string and is passed directly into the publish  function see How to Send and Receive JSON Data Over MQTT with Python (more…)

Many networks will have a local MQTT broker (edge broker) which also connects to a cloud broker.

The broker could be configured as an MQTT bridge and relay messages to the cloud broker. (more…)