# Let's build an MQTT client module for Ignition

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lets-build-an-mqtt-client-module-for-ignition/19410>\
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**Created:** [August 26, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lets-build-an-mqtt-client-module-for-ignition/19410 "2018-08-26T11:20:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lets-build-an-mqtt-client-module-for-ignition/19410/1 "2018-08-26T11:20:07Z")

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[**EMQ - The Massively Scalable MQTT Broker for IoT and Mobile Applications:**](http://emqtt.io/)

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**_Make sure all these ports are visible on the EMQ Admin Dashboard. If not, may be another broker like Mosquitto, Mosca etc is running. Stop it and restart emqttd._**  
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**Step 1 --- Setup EMQ(emqttd) Broker:** (Tested on Ubuntu 18.04)

[Download and install the latest stable deb version::](http://emqtt.io/downloads)

Make sure no other MQTT brokers like Moquitto, Mosca etc is running to avoid port clash.

Start emdttd broker:

> sudo systemctl start emqttd.service

Launch the EMQ Admin Dashboard:  
[http://localhost:18083/#/listeners](http://localhost:18083/#/listeners)

user: admin  
password: public

**Step 2 --- Generate and serve dynamic tags from Ignition as JSON payload:**

Follow this link. Download and run the "Ignition-IOT-Nirvana" demo project from github.

> **[GitHub - alamsha/Ignition-IOT-Nirvana: Serve Ignition tags as JSON api](https://github.com/alamsha/Ignition-IOT-Nirvana)**
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> Serve Ignition tags as JSON api. Contribute to alamsha/Ignition-IOT-Nirvana development by creating an account on GitHub.

\*\*\* Make sure ignition\_group1.php code doesn't serve more than 500 dynamic tags as JSON api. EMQ broker ignores any JSON payload with more than 500 tags per topic. \*\*\*\*

**Step 3 --- Download this repo:**

> **[GitHub - alamsha/IgitionMQTTClient: Let's build an MQTT client module for...](https://github.com/alamsha/IgitionMQTTClient)**
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> Let's build an MQTT client module for Ignition. Contribute to alamsha/IgitionMQTTClient development by creating an account on GitHub.

> cd mqtt-ignition/  
> python3 mqtt-publish.py

> Just double click and run "simple-mqtt-websocket-example-master/index.html" file. You will see all published messages on the browser.

_....... still working on JAVA-MQTT-PubSub client_