How to read channel messages with MQTT Board?

Get telemetry messages from the flespi channel using MQTT API.

flespi provides extended and easy-to-use MQTT API. This guide shows how to read messages received by the flespi channel over MQTT with flespi online MQTT client tool —- MQTT Board.

We assume that you already have a channel constantly receiving new messages. 

1. Open MQTT Board

MQTTBoard is available inside the flespi panel in MQTT drop-down and as a separate client

2. Create a client

To create a client you have to use FlespiToken as username. flespi panel client will take the current session token for that.

3. Subscribe for new messages

To receive messages accepted by a certain channel create a “Subscriber” and subscribe it to topic flespi/message/gw/channels/{channel_id}/+ (substitute {channel_id} with the id of your channel).

4. Get results

All new messages will be received in the Subscriber tab:

mqtt board channel messages



See also
Step by step guide on how to set up data flow from High Mobility platform to flespi.
Learn how to scale your MQTT data processing with flespi's shared subscriptions