Skip to Content
MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol
book

MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

by Gastón C. Hillar
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
280 pages
6h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from MQTT Essentials - A Lightweight IoT Protocol

Chapter 5. Controlling Home Automation in JavaScript

In this chapter, we will write JavaScript code to control home automation with MQTT messages. We will write code that will be able to run on web browsers. In addition, we will use Node.js to write code that runs on IoT boards, receives MQTT messages and controls devices wired to the boards. We will:

  • Understand the requirements to control home automation with MQTT and WebSockets
  • Define the topics and commands to control home automation
  • Enable WebSockets for a Mosquitto server
  • Understand the Eclipse Paho JavaScript asynchronous client
  • Create an HTML 5 web page to control LEDs
  • Publish messages to target remote devices in JavaScript
  • Process the received messages in JavaScript
  • Work with WebSockets to connect ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things

IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things

David Hanes, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Rob Barton
Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Kubernetes: Up and Running, 2nd Edition

Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787287815