Eclipse Mosquitto (Posts about Misc)

Citing Eclipse Mosquitto in your academic paper

Mosquitto Project — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:31:48 GMT

A short paper has been published on Mosquitto in The Journal of Open Source Software If you use Mosquitto in your academic work, please now use this paper as your citation.

R. A. Light, "Mosquitto: server and client implementation of the MQTT protocol," The Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 2, no. 13, May 2017, DOI: 10.21105/joss.00265

The paper link is http://dx.doi.org/10.21105/joss.00265

A [bibtex] entry is available.

test6.mosquitto.org

Mosquitto Project — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:35:33 GMT

Thanks to a short discussion on irc, test6.mosquitto.org now exists. This is a DNS entry that points to the same address as test.mosquitto.org, but only with an AAAA record. This means that test6.mosquitto.org can be used to test clients using IPv6 and to be sure that IPv6 is actually being used.

Seeking sponsorship

Mosquitto Project — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:12:53 GMT

The mosquitto project has, or can get, access to a wide variety of different systems to help with development. One important platform for which this is not true is Mac OS X. There are sufficient differences between Macs and other systems that this makes life difficult.

To this end, I would like to reach out to the mosquitto community to ask for help with obtaining either

A remote login on a Mac system
Donation of hardware
Donation of money to buy some hardware

I have been offered a remote account by a few individuals in the past, for which I'm very grateful, but only on a short term basis and, understandably, with limited control. Something on a longer term, with the ability to install packages would be much more useful. Unfortunately I realise this is relatively difficult to offer.

On the hardware side of things, there isn't a need for a modern, powerful computer. A second hand Mac Mini of Core2Duo vintage with 1GB RAM and a reasonably modern version of Mac OS X would be quite sufficient, and ideal for me in terms of the space it takes up. Regrettably I feel I would have to turn down offers of an old iMac or Mac Pro.

2007-era Mac Minis go on Ebay UK for around £100. I'm hopeful that there is a company out there using mosquitto, likes Macs and for whom £100 would be a drop in the ocean. If so, or any individuals want to help out with a small donation towards this, please get in touch directly to roger@atchoo.org or head over to the downloads page to see the paypal donation link, and thanks very much in advance.

Update:

I have now awaiting delivery of a Mac mini. Thanks very much to all of you that have contributed, it is very much appreciated. If you would still like to support mosquitto development please don't let this put you off...

mqtt-watchdir

Mosquitto Project — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:43:13 GMT

Recursively watch a directory for modifications and publish file content to an MQTT broker

mqtt-watchdir is a Python program by Jan-Piet Mens to watch a directory and publish new or modified files in that directory hierarchy to an MQTT broker, using a matching topic. Source and instructions are available at https://github.com/jpmens/mqtt-watchdir and it is also available via pypi.

It is a similar idea to my mqttfs fuse filesystem, but ultimately implemented in a better (and portable) manner.

Mosquitto Javascript client deprecated

Mosquitto Project — Tue, 07 May 2013 16:53:33 GMT

The Paho project recently made a new Javascript client available: http://git.eclipse.org/c/paho/org.eclipse.paho.mqtt.javascript.git

The mosquitto Javascript client, mosquitto.js, is neither as functional nor as well written as the Paho client, so is being deprecated. If you are using mosquitto.js I strongly recommend that you look to the Paho client for the future. I will be carrying out minor bug fixes but no other development will take place.

There are no plans to remove the existing files.