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

Project description

This simple Python program portably watches a directory recursively and publishes the content of newly created and modified files as payload to an MQTT broker. Files which are deleted are published with a NULL payload.

The path to the directory to watch recursively (default .), as well as a list of files to ignore (*.swp, *.o, *.pyc), the broker host (localhost) and port number (1883) must be specified in the program, together with the topic prefix to which to publish to (watch/).

Installation

git clone https://github.com/jpmens/mqtt-watchdir.git
cd mqtt-watchdir
virtualenv watchdir
source watchdir/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Configuration

  • TOPIC_PREFIX is prepended onto the relative path of the file being accessed, and may be None.

Testing

Launch mosquitto_sub:

mosquitto_sub -v -t 'watch/#'

Launch this program and, in another terminal, try something like this:

echo Hello World > message
echo JP > myname
rm myname

whereupon, on the first window, you should see:

watch/message Hello World
watch/myname JP
watch/myname (null)

Requirements

  • watchdog, a Python library to monitor file-system events.

  • Mosquitto’s Python module

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