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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

Creating a class to represent a vehicle

We will create the following two classes:

  • Vehicle: This class will represent a vehicle and provide methods that will be called whenever a command has to be processed. In order to keep the example simple, our methods will just print the actions that the vehicle executes after each method is called to the console output. A real-life class that represents a vehicle would interact with the engine, the lights, the actuators, the sensors, and the other different components of the vehicle whenever each method is called.
  • VehicleCommandProcessor: This class will represent a command processor that will establish a connection with an MQTT server, subscribe to a topic in which the MQTT client will receive messages with commands, analyze the incoming messages, and delegate the execution of the commands to an associated instance of the Vehicle class...
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