Automation - MQTT

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  • Proven on Mint 19.3
  • Proven on SparkyLinux 5.11
  • Proven on raw Debian (With a caveat)

Mosquitto MQTT Broker

Installing Mosquitto

  • sudo apt-get install mosquitto

Pretty simple, eh?

Ensure that Mosquitto broker is running

  • sudo service mosquitto status

expected result is Active: active (running)

Install client tools for testing etc

(Do this on any machine expected to manually use MQTT)

  • sudo apt install mosquitto-clients

Testing

In a terminal:

  • mosquitto_sub -h localhost -t "mqtt" -v

In another terminal:

  • mosquitto_pub -h localhost -t "mqtt" -m "Hello MQTT"

Now the message “mqtt Hello MQTT” will be displayed in the first terminal where the topic “mqtt” is subscribed.

Subscribing to # gives you a subscription to everything except for topics that start with a $ (these are normally control topics anyway).