How-to I/O MQTT Driver

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License requirements

The MQTT functionality requires an Add-on on your license and is only available with:

1. Qinsy (9) Marine Construction

2. Qinsy (9) Offshore

If the add-on is not present and activated, the driver(s) will not be started when going Online.

Creating a driver configuration

1. Under Type: select 'Generic Input'
   Press the 'New' button to create a new file

   

2. General Information

   1. Enter a name

   2. Select the MQTT option to create an MQTT Driver

   3. Select the system types you want to decode

      

   4. Press Next>
      

3. MQTT Parameters

   1. Configure the connection to the MQTT broker and the topics that should be subscribed.
      More information can be found here: Generic Input - MQTT Configuration

      

4. Set the Decoding Properties

   1. Method: Currently we support ASCII and JSON, in ASCII we expect a plain value when decoding.

   2. MQTT Topic: The sub-topic that the data will be derived from

   3. Json Key: The key on which the specific observation is stored in the json when selecting JSON as decoding method

      

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