Introduction

The future of IoT has the potential to be limitless. Wouldn’t it be great if you could add it to your own technological stacks? But where to start? With the basics, of course. In this book, you will start by learning about the most popular hardware and communication protocol, Raspberry Pi and MQTT. You will see how to use them together by setting up your own MQTT server on Raspberry Pi and understand how it works. This book also explores MQTT in detail, including the clients and devices that you can connect to your server.

What will this book cover?

This book covers the following exciting features:

  • Configure and use a Raspberry Pi for IoT projects
  • Implement the MQTT communication protocol for projects
  • Understand how to set up the NodeMCU and ESP32 boards as MQTT clients
  • Control a NodeMCU board through a Node-RED dashboard hosted on Raspberry Pi
  • Get LAMP server, Home Assistant, and MariaDB on the Raspberry Pi
  • Set up an online MQTT broker on a cloud service or enterprise service provider platform
  • Build full-scale, end-to-end prototype projects

Found this interesting? Where can you get your copy?

If you feel that this book would be useful for you, you can get your copy Packt or Amazon:

Packt

Amazon

What about the code?

The entire code base covered in this book is available in a GitHub Repository:

(https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Raspberry-Pi-and-MQTT-Essentials)

That’s all folks

That was all about my book. Thanks a lot for reading!