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Sending/receiving messages on mosquitto server using python

Here is an example publish message in python (run pip install paho-mqtt first):

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
from random import uniform
import time

client = mqtt.Client(mqtt.CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION2)
client.connect('localhost')

while True:
randNumber = uniform(20.0, 21.0)
client.publish("env/test/TEMPERATURE", randNumber)
print("Just published " + str(randNumber) + " to topic TEMPERATURE")
time.sleep(1)

Here is example subscribe in python:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import paho.mqtt.client as paho

def on_message(mosq, obj, msg):
print("%-20s %d %s" % (msg.topic, msg.qos, msg.payload))
mosq.publish('pong', 'ack', 0)

def on_publish(mosq, obj, mid, reason_codes, properties):
pass

if __name__ == '__main__':
client = paho.Client(paho.CallbackAPIVersion.VERSION2)
client.on_message = on_message
client.on_publish = on_publish

client.connect("localhost", 1883, 60)

client.subscribe("env/test/TEMPERATURE", 0)

while client.loop() == 0:
pass