Is it good practice to use MQTT to setdata for an IoT device?
Hey guys @IoT Cloud I know MQTT uses publish/subscribe, meaning all clients can pub/sub to any topic and all clients have to be connected to an MQTT broker.
Is it also good practice to use MQTT to setdata for an IoT device?
Let's imagine the IoT device is a smart light which can be controlled via a web app. The web app will subscribe for the r/g/b values and the intensity and then visualize the values in the app.
But is it also good practice to set data via MQTT? Meaning the web app will then publish to the topic /deviceID/set/r/255(or something like this) and only the IoT device subscribes to the topic /deviceID/set/#.
If this is not common practice what are the options? Do we have to implement multiple protocols for one IoT device?
Is it also good practice to use MQTT to setdata for an IoT device?
Let's imagine the IoT device is a smart light which can be controlled via a web app. The web app will subscribe for the r/g/b values and the intensity and then visualize the values in the app.
But is it also good practice to set data via MQTT? Meaning the web app will then publish to the topic /deviceID/set/r/255(or something like this) and only the IoT device subscribes to the topic /deviceID/set/#.
If this is not common practice what are the options? Do we have to implement multiple protocols for one IoT device?
Solution
MQTT is a very good option for that purpose. As long as the data isn't very large it will handle it
