Introducing Mosquitto broker

Eclipse Mosquitto^TM is an open source MQTT broker that implements the MQTT v3.1 and MQTT v.3.1.1 standards and provides a lightweight method to transport messages, allowing publish and subscription for low power sensors, mobile devices, embedded computers, and micro controllers.

You can install Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi or on AWS instance or on a VirtualBox Linux instance directly from your Linux repository distribution; or you can get the source code and compile it yourself if you want support from websockets.

Installing from your Linux distribution repository:

1. First upgrade to the latest version:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

2. Then install mosquito:

sudo apt install mosquitto

You should see the following screen:

Installing Mosquitto

3. After installing the Mosquitto broker verify that the broker is started and install mosquitto-clients as follows:

Verify if Mosquitto is running

4. Type the following command:

sudo apt install mosquitto-clients

You will get the...