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Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

You're reading from   Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT Build connected IoT devices with Arduino and MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341782
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits About Packt Contributors Preface 1. The Internet of Things in a Nutshell FREE CHAPTER 2. Basic Architecture of an IoT Prototype 3. Getting Started with MQTT 4. Setting Up a Lab Environment 5. Building Your Own Automatic Pet Food Dispenser 6. Building a Smart E-Ink To-Do List 7. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 1 8. Building a Smart Productivity Cube, Part 2 9. Presenting Your Own Prototype 1. Assessments 2. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making the dispenser controllable via MQTT

Now let's add MQTT functionality. What we want to achieve is the following.

The Arduino should subscribe to the /yourname/feeder/feed topic. The namespace consists of three parts: yourname, which you can freely pick, should unify all of your MQTT experiments; feeder, which is the name of your device (you could also give it a longer name, such as food-dispenser); and feed, which is a command we use to release one portion of food. We could also add other commands here. One command that would be good to add is status, to which the device sends a message when it connects or disconnects to the internet and MQTT server. Its namespace would look like this: /yourname/feeder/status. Feel free to add this functionality later on.

To make our feeder accessible via MQTT, we need to combine our current sketch with the MQTT test code...

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