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Looking at home automation on the Raspberry Pi as the Broker with MQTT and Mosquitto. I already have a small system running on CANBus using several PIC16F877A. I now would like to enhance my system and have been playing with Node Red and Pi3.
However, at one point there was a MQTT Client in the Comms. Further to an update this now is no longer there?
Is it possible therefore to say have a keypad connected to an 16F877A which would then publish via MQTT and Mosquitto to a Raspberry Pi 3 which would be acting as a broker and using Node Red? Pi and Node Red is very new to me. However, locally I've so found it to be pretty good. If I could interface my 16F877A (or similar) with the Pi Broker via MQTT this would be excellent.
Any examples/pointers would be very helpful.
Node Red running on a tablet/phone is very impressive and the way to go for Home Automation. I just now need to interface and expand my existing
system with something more up to date.

Hi

I just opened up a version of FC7 and the MQTT client was there. I upgraded components and now it's gone.... I hope this is an oversight by Matrix.

Incidentally FC9 has in addition to the MQTT client component an IoT Made Easy component although I haven't yet tried it.

Regards

Ben has uploaded an excellent video on MQTT using Flowcode
It is using Flowcode V9.
You can try it with all targets and components free for 30 days