EMQX and Python

Launching EMQX serverwith docker

you will require 2 open ports on the server say (port1 & port2)

launch emqx sudo docker run -d --name emqx -p port1:18083 -p port2:1883 emqx:latest

here internal port

18083 -> emqx dashboard

1883 -> emqx server

container created

• login to container

sudo docker exec -it emqx /bin/sh

• change password of root(admin) user

emqx ctl admins passwd admin <your-pass>

to access dashboard

http://server-ip:port1 # see above for port1

• create user

write some python code to publish message to the broker

• install paho-mqtt pip install paho-mqtt

see code emqx-python.py