MQTT Brokers

Public MQTT Brokers

See Public MQTT Brokers.

Hosted MQTT Services

Name	TCP Port	TLS Port	WebSocket Port	Message Retention	Persistent Session	QoS Levels	Free Limits	Link
Azure	NO	8883	443	NO	Limited	0, 1	8000 messages/day	https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-hub/iot-hub-mqtt-support
AWS	NO	8883	443	NO	Limited	0, 1	250,000/month	https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/mqtt.html
CloudMQTT	Custom Port	Custom Port	Custom Port	YES	YES	0, 1, 2	5 Connections & 10 Kbit/s	https://www.cloudmqtt.com/plans.html

Running Mosquitto in Docker

Running Mosquitto MQTT broker in a Docker container is the advised method to deploy servers.

• https://hub.docker.com/_/eclipse-mosquitto
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKw3tUrX3d8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABb-63y0Em4

Install

1. https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/#install-using-the-repository
2. sudo visudo ...ADD THIS LINE... username ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/docker (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21659637/how-to-fix-sudo-no-tty-present-and-no-askpass-program-specified-error more info)

sudo docker run -it -p 10883:10883 -p 9001:9001 --name=mqtt -v /home/pi/mqtt:/mosquitto/config -v /home/pi/mqtt/mqtt1.conf:/mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf -v /home/pi/mqtt/aclfile.acl:/mosquitto/config/aclfile.acl -v /home/pi/mqtt/pwfile:/mosquitto/config/passwordfile eclipse-mosquitto:openssl

Starting

sudo docker restart mqtt

Node-RED Flow

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