Re: [Mosquitto-users] broker detection

2012-12-09 Thread Roger Light
Hi, On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Matthew Smollinger wrote: > You could implement something like Bonjour discovery ... > Mosquitto doesn't support this type of discovery anyway to the best of > my knowledge. As Matt says, mosquitto doesn't support this directly at the moment. I've got a bra

Re: [Mosquitto-users] broker detection

2012-12-08 Thread Matthew Smollinger
Generally I'd say hardcode a DNS name, as sensors are generally low power / low memory. You could implement something like Bonjour discovery but many of those types of "discovery" algorithms including dhcp require either local subnet access (for broadcast access) or, in the case of dhcp, special co

Re: [Mosquitto-users] broker detection

2012-12-08 Thread Andre Tippel
Ok, thanks, too Bad If i develop a little temperature-sensor on an embedded device i have to preconfigure a broker address. But if i sell such devices how can the user configure them? Such devices have no keyboard, no display, ... it's challenging in view of the fact that the user acceptan

[Mosquitto-users] broker detection

2012-12-08 Thread Andre Tippel
Hi, i am new at mqtt topic. My question is how can clients (like a sensor) detect brokers? Is it needed to preconfigure a brokers network address or hostname in the client? Or are there any other (dynamic) technologies that act like dhcp or so. Thanks for your help. Andre -- Mailing list: