NAME

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

VERSION

version 1.110200

SYNOPSIS

# messages one per line on stdin
echo message | net-mqtt-pub [options] topic

# message as command line arguments
net-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

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

-port

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

-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.

SEE ALSO

Net::MQTT::Message(3)

AUTHOR

Mark Hindess <soft-cpan@temporalanomaly.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 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.