This is my code
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc): # The callback for when the client connects to the broker
print("Connected with result code {0}".format(str(rc))) # Print result of connection attempt
def on_message(client, userdata, message): # The callback for when a PUBLISH message is received from the server.
print("message received " ,str(message.payload.decode("utf-8")))
print("message topic=",message.topic)
print("message qos=",message.qos)
print("message retain flag=",message.retain)
#creating client instance
client = mqtt.Client(client_id="random_id_name")
print("client created ......")
client.on_connect = on_connect # Define callback function for successful connection
client.on_message = on_message # Define callback function for receipt of a message
#connecting to broker/server
hostname = "hostname_I_am_trying_to_connect" #give the host/server/broker name
portnumber = **random_port_number_as_integer_value** #give the port number
client.username_pw_set("username", "password") #give the username and password for the broker/server/host
client.connect(host= hostname ,port= portnumber)
print("client connected to- ",hostname," on port_number:",portnumber)
client.subscribe("login")
print("subscribed to the topic")
client.publish("login","some_message")
print("message published")
client.loop_forever() # Start networking daemon
Here I am expecting to receive some_message/unique_id from the broker , i.e. 1234/1234_qyehfj_1234_jfjfj.
Instead, I am receiving some random numbers. See the screenshot:
What is the problem here? Is the problem in my code or something wrong with the broker I am sending messages to?
If something is wrong with the code please let me know how to fix this.
I solved the problem last night. So here I am going to explain what happened.
I subscribed to the wrong topic, that's why I was receiving everything that other people may or may not have published on that particular topic.
In the future, if anyone is facing the same problem, double-check if you are subscribed to the right topic.
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It's my first time trying to connect to a mqtt broker and it's not really going great. I've been trying to get data from the broker but am unable to figure out how to connect. I've been handed a username, password, port and encrypted port aswell as "Topics. When trying to connect the "client.connect"-line responds with "0". I changed the username and password and I still get the same result so there is something wrong with my configuration. Any help would be much appreciated!
I'm running python 3.6.5
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import time
username="temp"
password="temp"
# The callback for when the client receives a CONNACK response from the server.
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print("Connected with result code "+str(rc))
# Subscribing in on_connect() means that if we lose the connection and
# reconnect then subscriptions will be renewed.
client.subscribe("extapi/data/esm")
# The callback for when a PUBLISH message is received from the server.
def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
print(msg.topic+" "+str(msg.payload))
client = mqtt.Client()
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message
client.username_pw_set(username, password)
client.connect("example.io", 1883, 60)
I am new to using MQTT and I would like to run two Python programs simultaneously: one to publish messages to a topic and the other to print out the messages as they are published to the topic. However, the callback function to print out the message isn't working for me.
These are the two programs I have:
Publish messages:
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print("Connected! Result code: " + str(rc))
client = mqtt.Client(client_id="clientID")
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.username_pw_set(username="username", password="password")
client.loop_start()
client.connect("node02.myqtthub.com", 1883)
while True:
client.publish("my/topic", "test")
Subscribe to and print messages:
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
print(msg.payload.decode())
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print("Connected! Result code: " + str(rc))
client.subscribe("my/topic")
client = mqtt.Client(client_id="clientID")
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message
client.username_pw_set(username="username", password="password")
client.connect("node02.myqtthub.com", 1883)
client.loop_forever()
Could someone help me fix this issue?
Both programs are using client_id="clientID"; the mqtt spec states
If the ClientId represents a Client already connected to the Server then the Server MUST disconnect the existing Client [MQTT-3.1.4-2].
So whichever app connects second will cause the first to be disconnected. To fix this change the client id in one of the apps.
Note: This is a comment on something obviously wrong. When asking a question please state what you see happening (any output, errors, what you have tried etc) because there may be another problem.
I have written a code that can do both publishing and subscribing in the same python file. My aim is to be able to send endlessly color temperature to a lamp and receive back its state (ON/OFF or online/offline).
However, when I run the code, I can send messages to the lamp but I don't receive anything (note that publisher and subscriber worked well separately)
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import sys
import time
topic = "testtopic/3"
topic_casa = "testtopic/1"
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print("Connection to the broker. Result : "+str(rc))
client.subscribe(topic_casa, qos=1)
client.publish(topic, light.circadianLight())
def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
Message = str(msg.payload)
print("[MSG RECEBIDA] Topico: "+msg.topic+" / Mensagem: "+Message)
def on_publish(client,userdata,result):
client.publish(topic, light.circadianLight())
time.sleep(10)
def on_disconnect(client, userdata, rc):
if rc != 0:
print("Unexpected disconnection.")
try:
print("[STATUS] Inicializando MQTT...")
#inicializa MQTT:
client = mqtt.Client()
client.username_pw_set(username, password)
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message
client.on_disconnect = on_disconnect
client.on_publish = on_publish #with this callback we won't be able to
#receive messages
client.connect(Broker, PortaBroker, KeepAliveBroker)
client.loop_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
print ("\nCtrl+C pressionado, encerrando aplicacao e saindo...")
sys.exit(0)
The problem is two fold, first that you are calling time.sleep(10) in the on_publish() callback.
This is blocking the MQTT client network loop so it will not send/receive any messages for 10 seconds every time you publish a message.
You should not be doing any blocking or long running tasks in any of the MQTT client callbacks.
The other problem is that without the sleep the client will spend all it's time publishing messages (because everytime it finishes publishing a message it trigger the on_publish() callback which kicks off another publish. It will never get round to handing the incoming messages.
If you want to publish messages at a regular interval then you need to start a separate thread to do it, not try to do it in the callbacks.
Hi I have a mqtt broker up and running. I am connecting to it from python using paho-mqtt.
Code
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
if rc==0:
print("connected OK Returned code=",rc)
else:
print("Bad connection Returned code=",rc)
print("Subscribing to topic","data/#")
client.subscribe("data/#")
def on_disconnect(client, userdata, rc):
print("Client Got Disconnected")
if rc != 0:
print('Unexpected MQTT disconnection. Will auto-reconnect')
else:
print('rc value:' + str(rc))
broker_address="ip"
port = 'port'
print("creating new instance")
client = mqtt.Client(clean_session=True) #create new instance
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message #attach function to callback
client.on_disconnect = on_disconnect
print("connecting to broker")
client.connect(broker_address, port=port,) #connect to broker
client.loop_forever() #stop the loop
I am using the same code in multiple scripts ,connecting to broker and subscribing to a topic. The frequency of disconnection was less when there were 5-6 scripts. I have around 12-13 scripts connecting to the broker and frequency of disconnects has increased significantly. Is there some thing wrong with the connection in the scripts or its about the broker. Can someone help me with this?
My guess though is your broker does not like the fact that the Python client defaults to a null clientid. As per the spec it should treat this as an indication it must assign a unique id to your client, but it may be implementing the spec improperly?
Please try passing a randomly generated / unique client id in your connect(), as this will guarantee your clients are all unique, rather than all having the same id which for your broker means it's kicking out any connected client when a new one with the same id tries to connect.
I'm new in MQTT there is a simple range of numbers which I want to print I have created 2 files in which the 1st file whose send data to the 2nd file and the script is like that:
sender.py
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
client = mqtt.Client()
client.connect("192.168.1.169", 1883, 60)
for i in range(1,100):
client.publish("TestTopic", i)
print(i)
client.disconnect()
receiver.py:
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
print("Connected with result code "+str(rc))
client.subscribe("house/bulbs/bulb1")
def on_message(client, userdata, msg):
# print(msg.topic+" "+str(msg.payload))
print("message received ", str(msg.payload.decode("utf-8")))
print("message topic=", msg.topic)
print("message qos=", msg.qos)
print("message retain flag=", msg.retain)
client = mqtt.Client()
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message
client.connect("192.168.1.169", 1883, 60)
client.loop_forever()
I'm able to print the data if the receiver file is active but I have a problem in printing it if I started the sender file and then I started the receiver file ,main question is does MQTT follows the queueing Mechanism or not if yes then ....if I'm running the sender file then its all data should be in queue and after that when I'm run the other file which is receiver then I should get printed.. but its not working in the same way please help me I went lots of documents but i'm able to find any relevant info.. recently I found clean_session if someone have knowledge about this please tell me ....have any questions related my code or anything please let me know
thanks
MQTT is a pub/sub protocol, not a message queuing system.
This means under normal circumstances if there is no subscriber running when a message is published then it will not be delivered.
It is possible to get the broker to queue messages for a specific subscriber, but this requires the subscriber to have been connected before the message is published and to have subscribed with a QOS of greater than 0. Then as long as it reconnects with the clean session flag set to false and the same client id after the publish then the broker will deliver the missed messages.
Retained messages are something different. If a message is published with the retained flag set to true then the broker will deliver this single message to every subscriber when they subscribe to the matching topic. There can only ever be 1 retained message for a given topic.