Hands-On Internet of Things with MQTT

Installing the MQTT library for Arduino

To use MQTT on the Arduino MKR WiFi 1010, we need to install one of the available MQTT libraries. We will use arduino-mqtt (https://github.com/256dpi/arduino-mqtt) for this, an MQTT library made by Joël Gähwiler, who also made shiftr.io (https://shiftr.io), the MQTT server and visualization platform that was introduced in Chapter 3, Getting Started with MQTT.

Follow these steps to install the MQTT library:

1. Click on Tools | Manage Libraries.
2. Enter arduino mqtt in the search bar.
3. Press Enter, and then scroll down until you find a library called MQTT, by Joël Gähwiler.
4. Install it by clicking on the Install button on the right. I am using Version 2.4.3. You can install the latest version here, as long ...