Installing MQTT Broker(Mosquitto) on Raspberry Pi

Eclipse Mosquitto™ is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for “Internet of Things” messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or microcontrollers like the Arduino. And I will show you how to install Mosquitto to RaspberryPi

1. SSH into your Raspberry Pi. Now, you need to add the Mosquitto repository. Enter the following commands:

   sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
   sudo apt-key add mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
   sudo rm mosquitto-repo.gpg.key

2. Next, make the repository available to apt-get. First we need to change to the apt sources list directory:

   cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

3. Now install the packages list for your Raspbian.

   sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-jessie.list

4. Now update apt information and install Mosquitto.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto

5. Next we can install the three parts of Mosquitto proper.
   • mosquitto – the MQTT broker (or in other words, a server)
   • mosquitto-clients – command line clients, very useful in debugging
   • python-mosquitto – the Python language bindings

   sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-clients python-mosquitto

6. Now the broker is immediately started.  Since we have to configure it first, stop it by command:

   sudo /etc/init.d/mosquitto stop

7. We need to set up the configuration file. The configuration files is located at /etc/mosquitto. Open the config file:

   sudo nano /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

    
   File should look like this:

   # Place your local configuration in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/
   #
   # A full description of the configuration file is at
   # /usr/share/doc/mosquitto/examples/mosquitto.conf.example
   
   pid_file /var/run/mosquitto.pid
   
   persistence true
   persistence_location /var/lib/mosquitto/
   
   log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log
   
   include_dir /etc/mosquitto/conf.d

   Now replace “log_dest file /v…” line with “log_dest topic”. And add following 6 lines:

   log_type error
   log_type warning
   log_type notice
   log_type information
   
   connection_messages true
   log_timestamp true

   Now the file should look like this:

   # Place your local configuration in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/
   #
   # A full description of the configuration file is at
   # /usr/share/doc/mosquitto/examples/mosquitto.conf.example
   
   pid_file /var/run/mosquitto.pid
   
   persistence true
   persistence_location /var/lib/mosquitto/
   
   log_dest topic
   
   log_type error
   log_type warning
   log_type notice
   log_type information
   
   connection_messages true
   log_timestamp true
   
   include_dir /etc/mosquitto/conf.d

8. Start the mosquito server:

   sudo /etc/init.d/mosquitto start

9. Test your installation by opening 2 two terminal windows to the first insert:

   mosquitto_sub -d -t hello/world

    

10. And to the second window insert:

    mosquitto_pub -d -t hello/world -m "Hello from Terminal window 2!"

     

11. When you have done the second statement you should see this in the Terminal 1 window:

    ~ $ sudo mosquitto_sub -d -t hello/world
    Client mosqsub/3014-LightSwarm sending CONNECT
    Client mosqsub/3014-LightSwarm received CONNACK
    Client mosqsub/3014-LightSwarm sending SUBSCRIBE (Mid: 1, Topic: hello/world, QoS: 0)
    Client mosqsub/3014-LightSwarm received SUBACK
    Subscribed (mid: 1): 0
    Client mosqsub/3014-LightSwarm received PUBLISH (d0, q0, r0, m0, 'hello/world', ... (32 bytes))
    Greetings from Terminal window 2

    On Linux version 4.4.50/ Raspbian v. 8 (jessie) and mosquitto MQTT v3.1 the mosquitto will start on boot automatically.