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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Pages 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Lightweight Messaging with MQTT 3.1.1 and Mosquitto 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 Exersise Answers

Defining topics and commands


We will use commands/boards/boardname/actuators/actuatorname as the topic name to publish the commands for the actuators wired to an IoT board, where boardname must be replaced with a unique name assigned to a board and actuatorname must be replaced with a unique name assigned to an actuator. For example, if we assign inteledison01 as the name for an Intel Edison board and motor01 as the name for a motor controlled with this board, we will have to publish the commands to the commands/boards/inteledison01/actuators/motor01 topic, and the code that runs on this board will subscribe to this topic to receive messages with commands and react to them. In fact, the board can subscribe to commands/boards/inteledison01/actuators/+ to receive messages with commands for all the actuators wired to the board named inteledison01.

The commands will be sent as strings in plain English. We will have just two valid commands:

  • TURN ON: Turn on the actuator

  • TURN OFF: Turn off the...

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