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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)

Creating a class to represent a vehicle

We will create the following two classes:

  • Vehicle: This class will represent a vehicle and provide methods that will be called whenever a command has to be processed. In order to keep the example simple, our methods will just print the actions that the vehicle executes after each method is called to the console output. A real-life class that represents a vehicle would interact with the engine, the lights, the actuators, the sensors, and the other different components of the vehicle whenever each method is called.
  • VehicleCommandProcessor: This class will represent a command processor that will establish a connection with an MQTT server, subscribe to a topic in which the MQTT client will receive messages with commands, analyze the incoming messages, and delegate the execution of the commands to an associated instance of the Vehicle class...