Quickstart

A quick way for getting started with HBMQTT is to use console scripts provided for :

  • publishing a message on some topic on an external MQTT broker.
  • subscribing some topics and getting published messages.
  • running a autonomous MQTT broker

These scripts are installed automatically when installing HBMQTT with the following command

(venv) $ pip install hbmqtt

Publishing messages

hbmqtt_pub is a command-line tool which can be used for publishing some messages on a topic. It requires a few arguments like broker URL, topic name, QoS and data to send. Additional options allow more complex use case.

Publishing `some_data to as /test topic on is as simple as :

$ hbmqtt_pub --url mqtt://test.mosquitto.org -t /test -m some_data
[2015-11-06 22:21:55,108] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5135-MacBook-Pro.local Connecting to broker
[2015-11-06 22:21:55,333] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5135-MacBook-Pro.local Publishing to '/test'
[2015-11-06 22:21:55,336] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5135-MacBook-Pro.local Disconnected from broker

This will use insecure TCP connection to connect to test.mosquitto.org. hbmqtt_pub also allows websockets and secure connection:

$ hbmqtt_pub --url ws://test.mosquitto.org:8080 -t /test -m some_data
[2015-11-06 22:22:42,542] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5157-MacBook-Pro.local Connecting to broker
[2015-11-06 22:22:42,924] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5157-MacBook-Pro.local Publishing to '/test'
[2015-11-06 22:22:52,926] :: INFO - hbmqtt_pub/5157-MacBook-Pro.local Disconnected from broker

hbmqtt_pub can read from file or stdin and use data read as message payload:

$ some_command | hbmqtt_pub --url mqtt://localhost -t /test -l

See hbmqtt_pub reference documentation for details about available options and settings.

Subscribing a topic

hbmqtt_sub is a command-line tool which can be used to subscribe for some pattern(s) on a broker and get date from messages published on topics matching these patterns by other MQTT clients.

Subscribing a /test/# topic pattern is done with :

$ hbmqtt_sub --url mqtt://localhost -t /test/#

This command will run forever and print on the standard output every messages received from the broker. The -n option allows to set a maximum number of messages to receive before stopping.

See hbmqtt_sub reference documentation for details about available options and settings.

URL Scheme

HBMQTT command line tools use the --url to establish a network connection with the broker. The --url parameter value must conform to the MQTT URL scheme. The general accepted form is :

[mqtt|ws][s]://[username][:password]@host.domain[:port]

Here are some examples of URL:

mqtt://localhost
mqtt://localhost:1884
mqtt://user:password@localhost
ws://test.mosquitto.org
wss://user:password@localhost

Running a broker

hbmqtt is a command-line tool for running a MQTT broker:

$ hbmqtt
[2015-11-06 22:45:16,470] :: INFO - Listener 'default' bind to 0.0.0.0:1883 (max_connections=-1)

See hbmqtt reference documentation for details about available options and settings.