Skip to main content

MQTT utility scripts made easy

Project description

A little glue package to make it simple to quickly put together scripts that bridge MQTT and other libraries. See examples below.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

$ pip install mqttwrapper

By default paho-mqtt will be used as the MQTT library, but you can use hbmqtt if you wish - see below. To install, use:

$ pip install mqttwrapper[hbmqtt]

Usage

mqttwrapper.run_script handles the setup/maintenance of the MQTT connection and subscriptions to topics, and calls a callback function when messages are received.

The simplest script looks something like this:

from mqttwrapper import run_script

def callback(topic, payload):
    print("Received payload {} on topic {}".format(payload, topic))

def main():
    run_script(callback, broker="mqtt://127.0.0.1", topics=["my/awesome/topic1", "another/awesome/topic2"])

Any extra keyword arguments passed to run_script are passed back to the callback function when it’s called:

from mqttwrapper import run_script

def callback(topic, payload, context, foo):
    assert context == "hello"
    assert foo == "bar"
    print("Received payload {} on topic {}".format(payload, topic))

def main():
    run_script(callback, broker="mqtt://127.0.0.1", topics=["my/awesome/topic1", "another/awesome/topic2"], context="hello", foo="bar")

Configuration

broker and topics can be omitted from the run_script call and environment variables used instead:

  • MQTT_BROKER: MQTT broker to connect to, e.g. mqtt://127.0.0.1/

  • MQTT_TOPICS: Comma-separated list of topics to subscribe to, e.g. my/topic1,my/topic2

asyncio/hbmqtt

The asyncio-powered hbmqtt MQTT library can be used instead, if you like:

from mqttwrapper.hbmqtt_backend import run_script

NB hbmqtt’s reconnection handling does not resubscribe to topics upon reconnection, and mqttwrapper does not yet work around this.

Examples

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

mqttwrapper-0.0.2.tar.gz (2.9 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

mqttwrapper-0.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (5.3 kB view hashes)

Uploaded Python 2 Python 3

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page