How to Subscribe MQTT Messages from LoRa Server

[English]

Overview

In the LoRaWAN application framework, MQTT is wildly used. For example, your LoRa node devices send sensor data to a gateway and the gateway forward these data to a cloud server, how can we get these sensor data from the cloud server?

The purpose of this article is to provide some examples of how to get MQTT messages from a cloud servers. Hope these examples can provide some reference or make sense to your application.

Via Python

Here is a simple python3 example that can be used to subscribe to MQTT messages from the server.

mqtt-receiver.py

In the simple python example, the content in the three red boxes needs to be modified according to your actual situation:

  • username_pw_set – The MQTT topic subscribe user name and pass word.

    • For HT-M02 PoE Edge LoRa Gateway, the default user name is loraroot, pass word is 62374838

    • For Heltec LoRa Cloud Server, the login information is the user name and password of the MQTT subscription.

  • subscribe – MQTT topic name, in the example code, the 2 is application ID allocation by server.

  • HOST and PORT – MQTT server address and communication port.

Run it in a shell with Python3, the content with red line is the data send by node. It’s encrypted in BASE64 format

python3 mqtt-receiver.py

If the example does not run correctly, may be missing related components, install it through the following command.

sudo pip3 install paho-mqtt python-etcd

Via third party application (MQTT.fx)

There are many useful MQTT subscription and push software on the Internet. This article takes MQTT.fx as an example.

  • Basic communication can be carried out with the above settings. And then click Connect.

  • Click Subscribe -> Scan in turn, and wait for the connected node to transmit data.

  • After the node uploads the data, the information will be scanned in the Scan column.

  • Select one as the subscription information. When there is matching subscription information uploaded, it will be displayed in the data column. The sample subscription is application/4/device/22........09/rx.