NAME

net-mqtt-sub - Perl script for subscribing to an MQTT topic

VERSION

version 1.142010

SYNOPSIS

net-mqtt-sub [options] topic1 [topic2] [topic3] ...

DESCRIPTION

This script subscribes to one or more MQTT topics and prints any messages that it receives to stdout.

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.

-verbose

Include more verbose output. Without this option the script only outputs errors and received messages one per line in the form:

topic message

With one -verbose options, publish messages are printed in a form of a summary of the header fields and the payload in hex dump and text form.

With two -verbose options, summaries are printed for all messages sent and received.

With three -verbose options, a hex dump of all data transmitted and received is printed.

-keepalive NNN

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

-count NNN

Read the specificed number of MQTT messages and then exit. Default is 0 - read forever.

-one or -1

Short for -count 1. Read one message and exit.

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.