Preface This is a discussion post and these are currently my thoughts on this topic. I would be grateful for comments and feedback. Introduction MQTT is still in the early stages of deployment and currently is used only on private networks. However with the growth in the adoption of the MQTT protocol for information distribution the number of public brokers and topics will probably increase substantially just as happened with websites in the early days of the internet.
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Rather than use an external broker like mosquitto with node-red you can install Mosca which is a MQTT broker written in node.js. Because Mosca isn’t part of the core nodes you need to install it using the npm package manager or through the Node-red Admin control panel.
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To administer node-red you will need to go the admin url. The admin url is the machine name or IP address followed by the port number. e.g 127.0.0.1:1880/ if you are running the browser on the same machines as node-red. localhost:1880/ – steve-laptop:1880/ when running node-red on a remote machine 192.168.1.154:1880/ I currently run node-red on a Raspberry Pi and use a second machine (windows 10) to create flows. Using The Node Red Admin User Interface (UI) When you open the node-red admin screen for the first time you should start with an empty work space as shown in
Continue readingUsing the Paho Node.js MQTT Client-Starting Guide
The node.js MQTT client is an open source client that can be used for publishing messages and subscribing to topics on an MQTT broker. It can be installed using: npm install mqtt –save and npm install mqtt -g To install the command line tools Documentation for the client is available here
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Node red makes it easy to save, share and move flows between computers using the export and import feature. Flows are exported as a JSON file and imported from a JSON file. You can export parts of a flow or the entire flow or even all flows.
Continue readingConfiguring the MQTT Publish and Subscribe Nodes in Node-Red
Node-Red provides both an MQTT subscribe (input) and publish (output) node. The configuration for these nodes are almost Identical as the main part of the configuration concerns the actual client connection. Because of this it is useful to think of the publish and subscribe nodes as consisting of two components as shown in the schematic below: Before we look a the actual configuration we will look at MQTT client connections in general.
Continue readingSecuring Node-Red with SSL and Username Authentication
Out of the box your connection to node-red is insecure. If you are exposing node-red to the Internet or just want a more secure installation then you can: Enforce an SSL connection. Require Username and Password Authentication
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