MQTT

This page describes MQTT Connectivity in more detail
If a device communicates via MQTT with akenza, an MQTT connector has to be set up and assigned to a data flow.
After the creation of the MQTT device connector, a secret is generated which needs to be provided in the topic structure of the uplink request. 
MQTT username: the device connector id
MQTT password: the device connector secret 
MQTT topic: a topic with the following structure /up/<deviceConnectorSecret>/id/<deviceID>
Sending data with MQTT
uplink.py
import paho.mqtt.publish as publish
​
topic ="<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
host = "mqtt.akenza.io"
mqtt_username = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
mqtt_password = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
payload = '{"foo":"bar"}'
​
publish.single(topic, payload, hostname=host, port=1883, auth={'username':mqtt_username, 'password':mqtt_password})
pip3 install paho-mqtt
python3 uplink.py
Receiving Downlinks with MQTT
Subscribing to downlinks is possible by providing the following info:
MQTT username: the device connector id
MQTT password: the device connector secret 
MQTT topic: a topic with the following structure /down/<deviceConnectorSecret>/id/<deviceID>
downlink.py
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
from paho.mqtt.client import error_string
​
host = "mqtt.akenza.io"
mqtt_username = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
mqtt_password = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
device_id= "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
topic = "/down/{0}/id/{1}/#".format(mqtt_password, device_id)
​
def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):  # The callback for when the client connects to the broker
    print("Connected with result code {0}".format(error_string(rc)))
​
def on_message(client, userdata, message):
    print("Received message '" + str(message.payload) + "' on topic '"
        + message.topic + "' with QoS " + str(message.qos))
​
def on_disconnect(client, userdata, rc):
    print("Unexpected disconnection. " + error_string(rc))
    if rc != 0:
        print("Unexpected disconnection. " + error_string(rc))
​
client = mqtt.Client("mqtt-test-client")
client.username_pw_set(mqtt_username, mqtt_password)
client.on_message = on_message
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_disconnect = on_disconnect
client.connect(host, 1883)
client.subscribe(topic)  # Subscribe to the topic, receive any messages published on it
​
client.loop_forever()  # Start networking daemon
pip3 install paho-mqtt
python3 downlink.py
The downlink topic added in akenza will be appended to the topic subscribed to e.g. when providing "myTopic" the resulting downlink topic will look as follows: /down/{0}/id/{1}/myTopic.
Using TLS
akenza allows sending data using transport layer security (TLS). For this the port 8883 has to be used.
import paho.mqtt.publish as publish
​
topic ="<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
host = "mqtt.akenza.io"
mqtt_username = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
mqtt_password = "<copy from Akenza Device Api configuration>"
payload = '{"foo":"bar"}'
​
tls_config = {
    "cert_reqs": ssl.CERT_REQUIRED,
    "tls_version": ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2
}
publish.single(topic, payload, hostname=host, port=8883, tls = tls_config, auth={'username':mqtt_username, 'password':mqtt_password})
Refer to the paho-mqtt documentation for more information.
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