October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 5m
English
There are a few exceptions to characters that cannot be used in topic names: topic names beginning with a dollar sign ($) are treated differently, and are often used on MQTT servers to transmit internal server messages (using the $SYS topic). You should not use the $ sign as the first character of a topic name in your projects.
Also, you should not use the null character in topic names (0x00). If you don't know what it is, don't worry. It is a control character that is used in languages such as C, where it terminates a string. It is not a physical key on your keyboard.
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