README.md

Horizon MQTT Broker Service

The MQTT Broker service provides an mqtt broker and publisher for inter-container commmunication.

API:

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Authentication:

This service is configured to use password-based authentication. By default, the username is set to mqtt and the password is password. To customize these attributes, please set these environment variables.

export MQTT_USERNAME=<desired-username>
export MQTT_PASSWORD=<desired-password>

Publishing:

mosquitto_pub [-d] [-h host] [-p port] {-f file | -m message} [-t topic] [-u username] [-P password]

Parameters:

Name	Description
-h	host name
-d	put the broker into the background after starting
-p	publish on the specified port
-f	send the contents of a file as the message
-m	message payload to send
-t	mqtt topic to publish to
-u	mqtt username
-P	mqtt password

Subscribing:

mosquitto_sub [-h host] [-p port] [-t topic] [-u username] [-P password]

Parameters:

Name	Description
-h	host name
-p	subscribe on the specified port
-t	mqtt topic to subscribe to
-u	mqtt username
-P	mqtt password