NAME

anyevent-mqtt-pub - Perl script for publishing to an MQTT topic

VERSION

version 1.142640

SYNOPSIS

  # messages one per line on stdin
  echo message | anyevent-mqtt-pub [options] topic
  # message as command line arguments
  anyevent-mqtt-pub [options] topic this is a message

DESCRIPTION

This script publishes each line from stdin as an MQTT message on the given topic.

OPTIONS

-help

Print a brief help message.

-man

Print the manual page.

-host A.B.C.D

The host running the MQTT service. The default is 127.0.0.1.

-port NNNNN

The port of the running MQTT service. The default is 1883.

-qos N

The QoS level for the published message. The default is 0 ("MQTT_QOS_AT_MOST_ONCE").

-verbose

Include more verbose output. Without this option the script only outputs errors

-keepalive NNN

The keep alive timer value. Defaults to 120 seconds. For simplicity, it is also currently used as the connection timeout.

-retain

Set the retain flag on the message. Default is not set.

SEE ALSO

AnyEvent::MQTT(3)

DISCLAIMER

This is not official IBM code. I work for IBM but I'm writing this in my spare time (with permission) for fun.

AUTHOR

Mark Hindess <soft-cpan@temporalanomaly.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Mark Hindess.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.