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John Werner
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John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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Publishing our status using MQTT

The following new requirement has come in: Req 22: The product must integrate with an IoT protocol such as MQTT or KNX.

In Chapter 7, Adding More Features, we looked at how easily Qt makes working with WebSockets; now we are going to take a look at a couple of more specific IoT protocols—MQTT and KNX. Both of these protocols are supported directly in Qt's commercial product, Qt for Automation (see Chapter 8, Qt in the Embedded World), and are made available as a source code extension under the (L)GPL license. Since we are using the (L)GPL version of Qt, we will be building them ourselves.

Building IoT extensions

If you can build Qt for the Raspberry Pi, you can build a couple of...

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John Werner

John Werner is an internationally published author, engineer, consultant, and conference speaker with more than 15 years' experience. He has earned patents for inventions ranging from Inkjet printers to automotive ignition systems. John was one of the early users of Qt on QNX and contributed to the early knowledge of how to make it work. He is a contributor to the Qt-related information on Stack Exchange. He is currently a senior software engineer, specializing in Qt development, for Caliber Imaging & Diagnostics.
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