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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

Enabling WebSockets for a Mosquitto server


Now, we will configure Mosquitto to work with WebSockets. First, we will work with WebSockets without TLS, and therefore, the communications between the client and Mosquitto through WebSockets will be unsecure. This way, any client that knows the host name and port will be able to establish a communication with the Mosquitto server.

In case you are running the Mosquitto server in a Terminal window in macOS or Linux, press Ctrl+C to stop it. In Windows, stop the appropriate service.

Go to the Mosquitto installation directory and open the mosquitto.conf configuration file. In Chapter 2, Securing an MQTT Mosquitto Server, we learned that it is a good practice to make a backup copy of the existing mosquitto.conf configuration file before making changes to it. This way, we can easily roll back to the previous configuration if something goes wrong.

In macOS, Linux, or Windows, add the following lines at the end of the configuration file:

    listener 9001...