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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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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

Installing paho-mqtt for Python


The Eclipse Paho project provides an open source client implementation of MQTT. The project includes a Python client, also known as the Paho Python Client or Eclipse Paho MQTT Python client library. This Python client has been contributed from the Mosquitto project and was originally known as the Mosquitto Python Client.

The following is the web page for the Eclipse Paho project:http://www.eclipse.org/paho.

The following is the web page for the Eclipse Paho MQTT Python client library version 1.2, that is, the paho-mqtt module version 1.2: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/paho-mqtt/1.2.

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We can use paho-mqtt in many modern IoT boards that support either Python 2.7.x or Python 3.x. For example, we can install paho-mqtt on Raspberry Pi boards, such as Raspberry Pi 3, and on Intel IoT boards, such as the Intel Joule, Intel Edison, and Intel Galileo. We just need to make sure that pip is installed to make it easier to install paho-mqtt. You can use your development...

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