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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

Installing paho-mqtt for Python


The Eclipse Paho project provides an open source client implementation of MQTT. The project includes a Python client, also known as the Paho Python Client or Eclipse Paho MQTT Python client library. This Python client has been contributed from the Mosquitto project and was originally known as the Mosquitto Python Client.

The following is the web page for the Eclipse Paho project:http://www.eclipse.org/paho.

The following is the web page for the Eclipse Paho MQTT Python client library version 1.2, that is, the paho-mqtt module version 1.2: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paho-mqtt/1.2.

Tip

We can use paho-mqtt in many modern IoT boards that support either Python 2.7.x or Python 3.x. For example, we can install paho-mqtt on Raspberry Pi boards, such as Raspberry Pi 3, and on Intel IoT boards, such as the Intel Joule, Intel Edison, and Intel Galileo. We just need to make sure that pip is installed to make it easier to install paho-mqtt. You can use your development...