Mastering the chaos – subscribe to all MQTT topics of your Mosqitto server with console and Node-RED

Mastering the chaos – subscribe to all MQTT topics of your Mosqitto server with console and Node-RED

I wanted to know which topics are active on my MQTT server and if there were some skeletons in the closet I could get rid of. Many Iot devices, Node-RED flows and surely some unused topics or old retained topics lead to more or less MQTT being a chaotic museum of topics. This is just…

Better scratch your balls than your frozen windshield – MQTT warning for nightly low temperatures with Node-RED querying a weather API

Better scratch your balls than your frozen windshield – MQTT warning for nightly low temperatures with Node-RED querying a weather API

I have a talent to forget to cover my car before a night with temperature below zero and the next morning I have to scratch away all the ice. As I really don’t like that I decided to build a warning mechanism for that. I already had a Node-RED flow querying the weather API to…

Easy peasy – querying weather API in Node-RED and publishing the current temperature to a MQTT broker

Easy peasy – querying weather API in Node-RED and publishing the current temperature to a MQTT broker

Precondition: Have your lokal MQTT broker and Node-RED installed and setup or access to a remote one. I recently added a http request node querying a weather API to Node-RED. After extracting, the current temperature is then published on the local MQTT and can be used by all devices connected to the broker.In this example…

Take small bites, chew long and eat slow, but this time it is obeyed – Splitting message in Node-RED containing a JSON object

Take small bites, chew long and eat slow, but this time it is obeyed – Splitting message in Node-RED containing a JSON object

This sounds trivial – and it is. When you know how to do it 🙂 There’s an example on the Node-RED homepage splitting a message generated from CSV, but this isnt the case here. I somehow did miss the point – if there is one made in the documentation – of how to split a…