Author: mayurdafare9

Create and send an MQTT packet using an ESP8266Create and send an MQTT packet using an ESP8266

First, you will need to include the MQTT library in your sketch:

#include <PubSubClient.h>

Next, you will need to create a PubSubClient object and specify the IP address and port of your MQTT broker. You can use the setServer method to do this:

PubSubClient client;
client.setServer("192.168.1.100", 1883);

Then, you can connect to the MQTT broker using the connect method of the PubSubClient object. This method takes the client ID and a boolean value that specifies whether to use clean session mode as arguments. Here is an example:

client.connect("esp8266", true);

Once you are connected to the MQTT broker, you can publish a message to a topic using the publish method of the PubSubClient object. This method takes the topic name and the message as arguments. Here is an example:

client.publish("esp8266/topic", "Hello, world!");

You can also subscribe to a topic using the subscribe method of the PubSubClient object. This method takes the topic name as an argument. Here is an example:

client.subscribe("esp8266/topic");

When you receive a message on the subscribed topic, the messageReceived callback function will be called. You can define this function to handle the received message. Here is an example:

void messageReceived(char* topic, byte* payload, unsigned int length) {
  // Do something with the received message
}

You can set the messageReceived callback function using the setCallback method of the PubSubClient object. Here is an example:

client.setCallback(messageReceived);

I hope this helps!