Using MQTT Explorer

MQTT explorer is a free cross platform MQTT client that is very useful for MQTT testing. You can download the client here. The client lets you subscribe to topics and publish messages to topics using a graphical interface. In addition is shows retained messages and allows you to easily delete them.

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Using MQTTBox

MQTTbox comes in two 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.

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Using MQTT-Lens- Beginners Guide

MQTT Lens is an add-on for the chrome browser that lets you publish messages to an MQTT broker, subscribe to MQTT topics, and receive messages using the chrome web browser. Once installed you access it via the url chrome://apps as shown below:

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MQTT Retained Messages Tool

This MQTT testing tool is a simple Python script that will list topics that have a retained message and optionally deletes the retained message. The script can be use from the command prompt by supplying options.

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