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Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

By : Gaston C. Hillar
Book Image

Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

By: Gaston C. Hillar

Overview of this book

<p>MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol for small sensors and mobile devices. This book explores the features of the latest versions of MQTT for IoT and M2M communications, how to use them with Python 3, and allow you to interact with sensors and actuators using Python.</p> <p>The book begins with the specific vocabulary of MQTT and its working modes, followed by installing a Mosquitto MQTT broker. You will use different utilities and diagrams to understand the most important concepts related to MQTT. You will learn to make all the necessary configuration to work with digital certificates for encrypting all data sent between the MQTT clients and the server. You will also work with the different Quality of Service levels and later analyze and compare their overheads.</p> <p>You will write Python 3.x code to control a vehicle with MQTT messages delivered through encrypted connections (TLS 1.2), and learn how leverage your knowledge of the MQTT protocol to build a solution based on requirements. Towards the end, you will write Python code to use the PubNub cloud-based real-time MQTT provider to monitor a surfing competition.</p> <p>In the end, you will have a solution that was built from scratch by analyzing the requirements and then write Python code that will run on water-proof IoT boards connected to multiple sensors in surfboards.</p>
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Configuring certificates for IoT boards that will work as clients

Now, we will write Python code that will be ready to work on the different IoT boards. Of course, you can work with a single development computer or development board. There is no need to run the code on different devices. We just want to make sure we can write code that will be capable of running on different devices.

Remember to copy the files we created in the previous chapter to a directory on the computer or device that will represent the board that controls a vehicle and that we will use to run a Python script. If you will be working with the same computer or device you have been using so far, you don't need to follow the next step.

We saved the files in a directory called mqtt_certificates. Create a board_certificates directory on the computer or board you are going to use as the MQTT client for this...