[OpenTRV-dev] Comms (concentrator/redistributor) configuration thoughts

[Aideen McConville]

PS A local MQTT broker can forward data to a remote broker. jpmens.net has lots of helpful stuff and created mqttwarn which may help. (already used by some openenergymonitor users).

Aideen


On 6 Jun 2015, at 17:42, Aideen McConville <aideen at amcc.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Damon,
> 
> My understanding is as follows: (and I might not be adding anything to what you've said already!)
> 
> Generic setup:
> The leaf nodes could be MQTT clients, publishing data to a central server/broker. Interested parties would subscribe to the broker to "hear about" data as it is received from relevant clients.
> Interested parties don't have any direct communication with leaf nodes and would need permission to access specific data from the broker (all included in the MQTT spec).
> 
> Leaf nodes would either talk MQTT directly or send JSON strings to Node Red or similar for onward transmission via MQTT (or other protocol) to a server/datastore.
> 
> I believe opensensors.io helps by making the arrangements for the above.
> 
> Aideen
> 
> 
> On 6 Jun 2015, at 11:02, Damon Hart-Davis <dhd at exnet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Aideen: I’ve added a note here:
>> 
>> http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-IoT-comms-backhaul.html#Opensensors
>> 
>> Is my ‘generic MQTT proxy’ comment on the right lines do yo think?  If not, what would be the right thing to do?
>> 
>> Rgds
>> 
>> Damon
>> 
>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:57, Damon Hart-Davis <dhd at exnet.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> opensensors.io is MQTT in, and I have a very simple test feed into it from elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> At the moment they don’t have a secure route to feed data in.  When they do I’ll try to support it pronto!
>>> 
>>> Rgds
>>> 
>>> Damon
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:54, Aideen McConville <aideen at amcc.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> No mention of MQTT?
>>>> 
>>>> Aideen
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 6 Jun 2015, at 10:24, Damon Hart-Davis <dhd at exnet.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-IoT-comms-backhaul.html#config
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interested in any input from the dev list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ideally someone has already done all this work, eg as one of the Apache projects, and we might merely need to write a shim/adaptor to achieve our aims.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Or maybe I’m thinking about this all wrong!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Rgds
>>>>> 
>>>>> Damon
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