Next to complete our environment, we set up an MQTT message broker:
Eclipse Mosquitto, on a our development machine or even on a
separate machine. There are some publicly available message brokers
as well, for example, there is one instance of Mosquitto by Eclipse.
IBM Bluemix also includes an instance of MQTT broker.
So Eclipse Kura running on Raspberry Pi, will read the temperature
from DS18B20 and sends the data as MQTT message to the broker , MQTT
clients, which have subscribed for the topic of the message, will
receive the data. Following link describes MQTT and provides a good
basic understanding.
MQTT primarily belongs Machine to Machine communication and was
specifically developed for the purpose, its reliable and resource
efficient. I found following resource about the preference of MQTT
for Internet of Things (IoT) projects:
Since I am working on Ubuntu I just had to do sudo apt-get install
mosquitto to install Mosquitto, that’s it!!
There are installers for other OSes here:
https://mosquitto.org/download/
In my case on Ubuntu, I created a password file under /etc/mosquitto/
using following command:
sudo mosquito_passwd -c mosquito.pwd user_name
This user is used to configure Eclipse Kura
I also set ‘Protocol’ in /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
as following:
protocol mqtt
Try to run Mosquitto using the following comment:
mosquito -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
If it runs fine, you should a similar output as following:
1476551631: mosquitto version 1.4.8 (build date Fri, 19 Feb 2016
12:03:16 +0100) starting
1476551631: Config loaded from mosquitto.conf.
1476551631: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 9001.
1476551631: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 9001.
1476551631: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.
1476551631: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.
Next we need to configure Eclipse Kura with Mosquitto, instructions
for doing so can be found on the following link:
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