Using the JavaScript MQTT Websockets Client- Part 2

This is the Second video showing how to use the JavaScript MQTT client over websockets to publish,subscribe and receive messages over MQTT and Websockets.
In this video we create a more useful client that can be used for broker testing.
The video shows how we can display data on the webpage as opposed to logging it to the console.
This we use for status areas for displaying connection and received messages
You should watch part 1 before this video as part 1 explains the script in more detail.
The video also covers what happens when the connection fails.
The script uses 3 forms to enable you to enter data and I show you in detail how to link the forms to the clent functions.
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[@kaaroClips]

Nice and simple. To the point description. Appreciate the work you put in sharing your experience.

[@101appsCoZa]

another great tutorial on using javascript mqtt websockets client. thanks!

[@idontwantachannelimjustcom7745]

after changing the hard coded host address, and adding a listener for websockets, I was able to connect to a mosquitto broker. when I open a second instance of the page, on a different device, the connection on the first instance is lost. I tried explicitly adding "max_connections -1" or "max_connections 5" and neither one let me have more that one connection over websockets.
any ideas?
Edit... I found out that the clientid was hard coded. so every connection had the same name, and the broker was deleting the oldest connection. I replaced it with a randomly generated number

[@ppgg997]

Hi very informative stuff right here!Glad i found your channel and website! I am still thinking the construction of my project so all this to me is something new trying to figure it out:)
What i didn't understand ,is the website a client? I mean can i open a new tab and connect to the broker as different client? In my project i want to have a website pulling from a database pre-seted IDs that refereed as client id's. So when the authentication (with password) is successful the db will return the corresponding client ID so all the magic stuff would happen (connection with the broker via website).

[@rodrigoeidt3006]

had some problems figuring out an error i was getting on my mac. i was using mosquitto broker, in case anyone gets the same mistake you gotta open the conf file and enable protocol websockets, but in my experience it can't be in the end of the file, search for the part the protocol appears.

[@rohitmahale6360]

please help for c# web forms

[@shahabalamkhan]

Thanks Steve

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

Hi Steve, fantastic video, so under the hood the server is running our regular MQTT protocols, however it is using a WS interface to communicate with the browsers. So can I have the MQTT server handling requests on both the regular socket 1883 and the WS socket 9001?
i.e., between micro-controllers running plain MQTT and with web-browsers running WS-MQTT.

[@stevecope]

Yes correct. When you subscribe to a topic and receive messages it could have come from a plain MQTT client or a a client using MQTT over WS and vice versa
Rgds
Steve

[@osamaa.h.altameemi5592]

@@stevecope Thank you so much :) Did you ever thought of going through the source code of Mosquitto i.e., explain it with your fantastic style :) and helpful comments.

[@parthk2317]

I am receiving data every second and data size is large. In few minutes my browser is filled full of data. How do I setup so only x number of values stays in browser window and auto deletes old data when new data received?
I dont want to overflow data and crash my browser.

[@stevecope]

Firstly I would truncate the message that is displayed so you only show the first 100 characters for example.
I would then drop them into an array of say 20 and read from the array and drop the array elements after 20 messages.

[@HaiderAli-co9jl]

Can I connect this client with my mosquitto broker?

[@stevecope]

Yes
Mosquitto supports web sockets
rgds
steve

[@tobyflenderson7176]

How do I fnd the Ip address of my local broker. I checked localhost, the ip in my ipconfig. I changed the mosquitto.conf's listener port-number and bind_address. Nothing worked. It says connection refused when I use in javascript

[@stevecope]

on the broker use ipconfig (windows) or ifconfig (linux) and you will see the address

[@tobyflenderson7176]

@@stevecope What do you mean by "on the broker"?

[@stevecope]

The machine that is running mosquitto. Open a command prompt and use ipconfig or ifconfing (linux)
rgds
steve

[@tobyflenderson7176]

@@stevecope That's the machine I used to check the ip. But I get "paho-mqtt.js:1052 WebSocket connection to 'ws://192.168.1.5:1883/mqtt' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET" error. I am using mosquitto-1.6.8 in which websocket is enabled by default.

[@tobyflenderson7176]

@@stevecope I get the same when I use a public broker. paho-mqtt.js:1054 WebSocket connection to 'ws://broker.hivemq.com:1883/mqtt' failed: Connection closed before receiving a handshake response

[@ahmedbourouis8296]

thanks Sir,
i could not connect to a cloudMQTT server! can you help me with that ?

[@stevecope]

Hi
If you go to the website and look through the tutorial it may help. If not use the ask steve oage on the site and give me more details.
www.steves-internet-guide.com/create-mqtt-broker-cloudmqtt/
Rgds
Steve