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Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789138542
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Preface 1. Installing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 2. Using Command-Line and GUI Tools to Learn How MQTT Works FREE CHAPTER 3. Securing an MQTT 3.1.1 Mosquitto Server 4. Writing Code to Control a Vehicle with Python and MQTT Messages 5. Testing and Improving Our Vehicle Control Solution in Python 6. Monitoring a Surfing Competition with Cloud-Based Real-Time MQTT Providers and Python 7. Solutions 8. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing the MQTT TLS configuration with GUI tools

Now, we will use the MQTT.fx GUI utility to generate another MQTT client that uses an encrypted connection to publish messages to the same topic: sensors/octocopter01/altitude. We have to make changes to the connection options to enable TLS and specify the certificate authority certificate file. Follow these steps:

  1. Launch MQTT.fx, select local mosquitto in the drop-down located at the upper-left corner, and click on the configuration icon at the right-hand side of this drop-down and at the left-hand side of the Connect button. MQTT.fx will display the Edit Connection Profiles dialog box with different options for the connection profile named local mosquitto.
  2. Go to the Broker Address textbox and enter the IPv4 or IPv6 address that we specified as the value in the Common Name field when we generated the server.csr file, that is...
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