NAME

net-mqtt-pub - Perl script for publishing to an MQTT topic

VERSION

version 1.163170

SYNOPSIS

# messages one per line on stdin
echo message | net-mqtt-pub [options] topic

# message as command line arguments
net-mqtt-pub [options] topic this is a message

DESCRIPTION

This script publishes each line from stdin as an MQTT message on the given topic.

OPTIONS

-help

Print a brief help message.

-man

Print the manual page.

-host

The host running the MQTT service. The default is 127.0.0.1.

-port

The port of the running MQTT service. The default is 1883.

-client-id

The client id to use in the connect message. The default is 'NetMQTTpm' followed by the process id of the process.

-verbose

Include more verbose output. Without this option the script only outputs errors

-keepalive NNN

The keep alive timer value. Defaults to 120 seconds. For simplicity, it is also currently used as the connection timeout.

-retain

Set the retain flag on the message. Default is not set.

SEE ALSO

Net::MQTT::Message(3)

DISCLAIMER

This is not official IBM code. I work for IBM but I'm writing this in my spare time (with permission) for fun.

AUTHOR

Mark Hindess <soft-cpan@temporalanomaly.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Mark Hindess.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.