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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
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MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

by Gastón C. Hillar
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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Receiving messages with Python

We will use the recently installed paho-mqtt module to subscribe to a specific topic and run code when we receive messages in the topic. We will create a DroneCommandProcessor class to represent a command processor associated to an instance of the previously coded Drone class, configure the MQTT client, the subscription to the client, and declare the code for the callbacks that are going to be executed when certain events are fired.

We will split the code for the DroneCommandProcessor class in many code snippets to make it easier to understand each code section. The following lines declare the DroneCommandProcessor class and its constructor, that is, the __init__ method. The code file for the sample is included in ...

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ISBN: 9781787287815