How to create a simple MQTT broker on the AXC F 2152 with Node-Red

Here is a method to create and test a simple MQTT broker on the AXC F 2152 / Node-Red.

Goto the Node-Red menu (the 3 lines, at the right of the screen) and select ‘Manage Palette’.

Go to the Install tab, and type ‘mqtt’ in the ‘search modules’ line

There, select ‘node-red-contrib-mqtt-broker’ and clic on ‘install’.

Then, after a while, you will see this icon in the input menu of Node-Red :

Drag and drop this item in a flow, and then, parameterize it :

Just define the MQTT ports, and a user with a password :

To make a test, and publish some datas, you have to use the native MQTT items from Node-Red.

To publish a data, just insert the MQTT output, and use the local MQTT broker that you just created :

Create the link to the local MQTT broker : (Server IP, Name, Username and Password are important)

Generate a variable wich will be published to the MQTT broker : (here, the timestamp will be the value of ‘test’ :

‘test’ will be the name of the variable accessible in the MQTT broker

Then, you have to subscribe to this variable, so that you are aware when it is modified :

So, insert the input MQTT, and define the parameters as follow :

When this is made, deploy your flow, and it should be like that :

If you trigger the test:timestamp input, then you should see the result in the debug window :

Here is the flow code :

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