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Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

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Product type Book
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138542
Pages 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
Profile icon Gaston C. Hillar

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface 1. Installing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 2. Using Command-Line and GUI Tools to Learn How MQTT Works 3. Securing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 4. Writing Code to Control a Vehicle with Python and MQTT Messages 5. Testing and Improving Our Vehicle Control Solution in Python 6. Monitoring a Surfing Competition with Cloud-Based Real-Time MQTT Providers and Python 7. Solutions 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Subscribing to topics with a GUI tool

MQTT.fx is a GUI utility implemented with JavaFX that is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This tool allows us to connect with an MQTT server, subscribe to topic filters, see received messages, and publish messages to topics. You can download the appropriate version for your operating system from the downloads section of the main web page for this utility: http://www.mqttfx.org.

Now, we will use the MQTT.fx GUI utility to generate another MQTT client that subscribes to the same topic, sensors/octocopter01/altitude, and displays all the messages it receives. We will work with MQTT.fx version 1.6.0. Follow these steps:

  1. Launch MQTT.fx, select local mosquitto in the dropdown located at the upper-left corner, and click on the configuration icon at the right-hand side of this dropdown and at the left-hand side of the Connect button. MQTT...
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