Hey!

On 10/24/2016 02:18 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
> I’m having all sorts of fun making some weather station and
> environmental sensors with assorted Pi and ESP8266 boards and I need
> a nice way to make the sensor nodes report back to base. Since the
> ESP8266 modules don’t run squeak (shame!) I’m using Arduino-c++
> (blech) on them, and since the weather sensor code already existed in
> python (double-blech) I’m using that on the weather-pi board. I’ve
> been recommended to look at MQTT as a way to bind them all together
> and from what little sense I can make of the assorted stuff that
> googling had lead me to (good grief, so much acronym laden gibberish)
> it looks like it might do the job.

MQTT is indeed a very good easy protocol, it's simply publish/subscribe 
on topics - but it's designed for low bandwidth and IoT etc. I have 
written some articles on using MQTT with our Evothings (where I work) 
tool (making Cordova mobile apps using js).

> Googling for a squeak mqtt package has revealed nothing thus far so
> I’m now appealing to the list for any news.

Mmm, I haven't hacked up an MQTT library - BUT... I did hack up a NATS 
library just a few weeks back.

There are several open source MQTT servers around (VerneMQ is nice) that 
are easy to fire up - and you also have WebSockets support (we use the 
Paho library).

Perhaps you could port Paho? Not sure if the code is nice enough to read.

regards, Göran