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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

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Overview of this book

This step-by-step guide will help you gain a deep understanding of the lightweight MQTT protocol. We’ll begin with the specific vocabulary of MQTT and its working modes, followed by installing a Mosquitto MQTT broker. Then, you will use best practices to secure the MQTT Mosquitto broker to ensure that only authorized clients are able to publish and receive messages. Once you have secured the broker with the appropriate configuration, you will develop a solution that controls a drone with Python. Further on, you will use Python on a Raspberry Pi 3 board to process commands and Python on Intel Boards (Joule, Edison and Galileo). You will then connect to the MQTT broker, subscribe to topics, send messages, and receive messages in Python. You will also develop a solution that interacts with sensors in Java by working with MQTT messages. Moving forward, you will work with an asynchronous API with callbacks to make the sensors interact with MQTT messages. Following the same process, you will develop an iOS app with Swift 3, build a website that uses WebSockets to connect to the MQTT broker, and control home automation devices with HTML5, JavaScript code, Node.js and MQTT messages
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

Connecting to the MQTT server and subscribing to topics in Swift


Now, we will add code to the ViewController class to make it conform to the CocoaMQTTDelegate protocol. In addition, we will add code to configure the MQTT client and establish a connection with the MQTT server. We will split the code for the ViewController class into many code snippets to make it easier to understand each code section. The following lines specify all the necessary imports, start the ViewController class declaration, and create many static type properties, the mqttClient property, and the configureMQTTAndConnect method. The following lines show the code for the ViewController class defined in the ViewController.swift file. The code file for the sample is included in the mqtt_essentials_gaston_hillar_06/ControlActuators folder:

import UIKit
import CocoaMQTT

class ViewController: UIViewController, CocoaMQTTDelegate {
    @IBOutlet weak var statusLabel: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var motorSwitch: UISwitch!
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