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Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On MQTT Programming with Python Work with the lightweight IoT protocol in 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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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

Understanding MQTT wildcards

When we analyzed the subscription operation, we learned that an MQTT client can subscribe to one or more topic filters. If we specify a topic name as a topic filter, we will only subscribe to a single topic. We can take advantage of the following two wildcards to create topic filters that subscribe to all the topics that match the filter:

  • Plus sign (+): This is a single-level wildcard that matches any name for a specific topic level. We can use this wildcard instead of specifying a name for any topic level in the topic filter.
  • Hash (#): This is a multilevel wildcard that we can use only at the end of a topic filter, as the last level, and it matches any topic whose first levels are the same as the topic levels specified at the left-hand side of the # symbol.

For example, if we want to receive all the messages related to altitude for all the drones...

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