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| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:34:39 +0200 |
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| 2 labels: | |
| 3 - 'Stage-Beta' | |
| 4 summary: 'MQTT interface to Prosody''s pubsub' | |
| 5 ... | |
| 6 | |
| 7 Introduction | |
| 8 ------------ | |
| 9 | |
| 10 [MQTT](http://mqtt.org/) is a lightweight binary pubsub protocol suited | |
| 11 to embedded devices. This module provides a way for MQTT clients to | |
| 12 connect to Prosody and publish or subscribe to local pubsub nodes. | |
| 13 | |
| 14 Details | |
| 15 ------- | |
| 16 | |
| 17 MQTT has the concept of 'topics' (similar to XMPP's pubsub 'nodes'). | |
| 18 mod\_pubsub\_mqtt maps pubsub nodes to MQTT topics of the form | |
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19 `HOST/NODE`, e.g.`pubsub.example.org/mynode`. |
| 1803 | 20 |
| 21 ### Limitations | |
| 22 | |
| 23 The current implementation is quite basic, and in particular: | |
| 24 | |
| 25 - Authentication is not supported | |
| 26 - SSL/TLS is not supported | |
| 27 - Only QoS level 0 is supported | |
| 28 | |
| 29 ### Payloads | |
| 30 | |
| 31 XMPP payloads are always XML, but MQTT does not define a payload format. | |
| 32 Therefore mod\_pubsub\_mqtt will attempt to convert data of certain | |
| 33 recognised payload types. Currently supported: | |
| 34 | |
| 35 - JSON (see [XEP-0335](http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0335.html) for | |
| 36 the format) | |
| 37 - Plain UTF-8 text (wrapped inside | |
| 38 `<data xmlns="https://prosody.im/protocol/mqtt"/>`) | |
| 39 | |
| 40 All other XMPP payload types are sent to the client directly as XML. | |
| 41 Data published by MQTT clients is currently never translated, and always | |
| 42 treated as UTF-8 text. | |
| 43 | |
| 44 Configuration | |
| 45 ------------- | |
| 46 | |
| 47 There is no special configuration for this module. Simply load it on | |
| 48 your pubsub host like so: | |
| 49 | |
| 50 Component "pubsub.example.org" "pubsub" | |
| 51 modules_enabled = { "pubsub_mqtt" } | |
| 52 | |
| 53 You may also configure which port(s) mod\_pubsub\_mqtt listens on using | |
| 54 Prosody's standard config directives, such as `mqtt_ports`. Network | |
| 55 settings **must** be specified in the global section of the config file, | |
| 56 not under any particular pubsub component. The default port is 1883 | |
| 57 (MQTT's standard port number). | |
| 58 | |
| 59 Compatibility | |
| 60 ------------- | |
| 61 | |
| 62 ------- -------------- | |
| 63 trunk Works | |
| 64 0.9 Works | |
| 65 0.8 Doesn't work | |
| 66 ------- -------------- |