mqtt_publisher (Mosquitto) example

Example use of the MQTT protocol in KasperskyOS.

In this example, an MQTT subscriber must be started on the host operating system, and an MQTT publisher must be started on KasperskyOS. The Publisher program is an implementation of an MQTT publisher that publishes the current time with a 5-second interval.

When the example starts and runs successfully, an MQTT subscriber started on the host operating system prints a "received PUBLISH" message with a "datetime" topic.

The example also demonstrates the use of various virtual file systems (VFS) in a single solution. The example uses different VFS to access the functions for working with the file system and functions for working with the network:

• The VfsNet program is used for working with the network.
• The VfsRamfs and VfsSdCardFs programs are used for working with the file system.

The CMake system, which is included with KasperskyOS Community Edition, is used to build and run the example.

Starting Mosquitto

To run this example, a Mosquitto MQTT broker must be installed and started on the host system. To install and start Mosquitto, run the following commands:

$ sudo apt install mosquitto mosquitto-clients

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mosquitto start

To start an MQTT subscriber on the host system, run the following command:

$ mosquitto_sub -d -t "datetime"

Supplied resources

The following configuration files are included in the example:

• ./resources/include/config.h.in contains a description of the backend file system that will be used in the solution: sdcard or ramfs.

  A separate VFS program (VfsSdCardFs or VfsRamfs, respectively) is used for each backend in the solution.

• The ./resources/ramfs/etc and /resources/sdcard/etc directories contain configuration files for the VFS, Dhcpcd and Ntpd programs.

Example files

The code of the example and build scripts are available at the following path:

/opt/KasperskyOS-Community-Edition-<version>/examples/mqtt_publisher

Building and running example

To run an example on QEMU, go to the directory containing the example, build the example and run the following commands:

$ cd build/einit

# Before running the following command, be sure that the path to

# the directory with the qemu-system-aarch64 executable file is saved in

# the PATH environment variable. If it is not there,

# add it to the PATH variable.

$ qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2048 -machine vexpress-a15 -nographic -monitor none -sd sdcard0.img -kernel kos-qemu-image

See also Building and running examples section.