Chapter 3. Controlling a Drone with Python
In this chapter, we will write Python code to control a drone with MQTT messages. We will write code that will be able to run on different popular IoT platforms. We will:
- Understand the requirements to control a drone with MQTT
- Define the topics and commands to control a drone
- Install paho-mqtt for Python
- Connect the client to the MQTT server with Python
- Understand callbacks
- Subscribe to topics with Python
- Create a class to represent a drone
- Receive messages with Python
- Process commands with Python
- Work with the network loop with Python
- Send messages with Python
