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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

Subscribing to topics in JavaScript


After a connection has been successfully established with the MQTT server, the specified callback in the this.mqttConnectOptions.onSuccess attribute will be executed, that is, the onConnectSuccess function. This function receives an invocationContext object as an argument. The code can access the object we assigned to this.mqttConnectOptions.invocationContext in invocationContext.invocationContext. Thus, the code can retrieve the instance of Paho.MQTT.Client, which established the connection with the MQTT server in the invocationContext.invocationContext.client attribute.

First, the onSuccess function updates the status text to indicate that the client is connected with the MQTT server. Then, the code saves Paho.MQTT.Client, which established the connection in the client variable. Finally, a for loop calls the client.subscribe method three times to subscribe to the following topics: home/results/leds/1, home/results/leds/2, and home/results/leds/3.

Tip

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