MQTTunneler

MQTTunneler helps you by creating a MQTT Tunnel for the transmission of data coming from UDP (and/or OSC (maybe in the future)) to connect you and your non-mqtt-supported device/software with the world through the internet.

It truly helps in connecting deprecated/restricted technology to more modern ones, achieving it's goals in having a better IoT integration.

Pre-requisites

The program requires Python3 and the module Paho-mqtt. You can install it by using:

pip3 install paho-mqtt

Origin

This software was developed by me (João Vitor Coelho) in Dec/2020 for the NANO - Núcleo de Arte e Novos Organismos, in the Escola de Belas Artes, at UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

How it Works

MQTTunneler creates (and maintains it, while it's running) a local UDP connection at your network, which will be used internally to send and receive data.

• You must point your device/software to your proper localhost IP ADDRESS and PORT (which are two separated ones: Receiving and Sending PORTs) and send your data via UDP connection. With that set, the program will do the rest in translating that to your MQTT broker.
• Receiveing data follows the same structure: data coming from the specific topic on your MQTT broker will be served on your local network, at the selected port (40301, by default, but it's customizable).

Credits

Developed by: João V. Coelho