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mqttesp8266nodemcu
Ankit jhunjhunwala
Ankit jhunjhunwala

Reputation: 185

not able to connect to test.mosquitto.org

I am working on esp8266 and trying to connect to test.mosquitto.org. here is what I got from net

m = mqtt.Client("clientid", 60, "user", "password")
m:on("connect", function(con) print ("connected") end)
m:on("offline", function(con) print ("offline") end)
m:on("message", function(conn, topic, data) 
  print(topic .. ":" ) 
  if data ~= nil then
    print(data)
  end
end)

m:connect("http://test.mosquitto.org/", 1883, 0, function(conn) print("connected") end)
m:subscribe("/topic",0, function(conn) print("subscribe success") end)
m:publish("/topic","hello",0,0, function(conn) print("sent") end)
m:close();

I am not sure from where to get clientId ,user and pass,

here what I am getting : DNS retry 1! DNS retry 2! DNS retry 3! DNS retry 4! DNS Fail!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 18518

Answers (3)

Eyal
Eyal

Reputation: 81

RE the original question: I use it without the last arguments as

m = mqtt.Client(clientID, 60)

and clientID is any name you want, to distinguish yourself from other clients (e.g. "Ankit").

The topic should be more descriptive of the payload (e.g. "message") and not a generic /topic.

Also note the earlier answers, for the connection use an IP (e.g. "85.119.83.194") or a hostname (e.g. "test.mosquitto.org") of the server.

HTH

Upvotes: 0

hardillb
hardillb

Reputation: 59618

The problem is the http:// at the start of the connect string and the / at the end

The connect command wants just a hostname not a URL and even if it did you would want to pass tcp://test.mosquitto.org or mqtt://test.mosquitto.org

...
m:connect("test.mosquitto.org", 1883, 0, function(conn) print("connected") end)
...

Also as an aside, your topics should not start with a /, this just adds an extra unnecessary null to the start of the topic tree.

Upvotes: 7

ProgrammerV5
ProgrammerV5

Reputation: 1962

Try with the IP instead of the name: 

m:connect("85.119.83.194", 1883, 0, function(conn) print("connected") end)

if that works that means that you are having a problem resolving the name of the website (for whatever reason).

Upvotes: 3

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