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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

You're reading from   MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol Send and receive messages with the MQTT protocol for your IoT solutions.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787287815
Length 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Lightweight Messaging with MQTT 3.1.1 and Mosquitto FREE CHAPTER 2. Securing an MQTT Mosquitto Server 3. Controlling a Drone with Python 4. Interacting with Sensors in Java 5. Controlling Home Automation in JavaScript 6. Interacting with Actuators in Swift A. Exersise Answers

Subscribing to topics with Python


The code calls the client.subscribe method with "test/drone01" as an argument to subscribe to this specific single topic and the qos argument set to 2 to request a QoS level of 2.

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In this case, we will only subscribe to one topic. However, it is very important to know that we are not limited to subscribe to a single topic filter; we may subscribe to many topic filters with a single call to the subscribe method.

After the MQTT server confirms the successful subscription to the specified topic filter, the specified callback in the client.on_subscribe attribute will be executed, that is, the on_subscribe function. This function receives a list of integers in the granted_qos argument that provides the QoS level that the MQTT server has granted for each of the topic filter subscription requests. The code in the on_subscribe function displays the QoS level granted by the MQTT server for the topic filter we specified.

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