A Python program to listen to your devices with MQTT

[arjanvanb (Arjan)]

@mrTheWheel

According to the examples I found the user name should be the AppEUI…

No; see https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/applications/mqtt/quick-start.html#credentials (You might be looking at old examples, which refer to the obsolete staging.thethingsnetwork.org.)

The access key you’re using should at least have access to the messages. You could generate an additional key just for your MQTT client.

@mrTheWheel

But, as far as I do understand Mosquitto, what I type in the cli version should be the same as what I type in the python script

Indeed, and so it does for me. I’d expect that too. (I have not tested with mosquitto_sub today.) The user name is the Application ID you’ve chosen yourself and the key starts with ttn-account-v2:

mqttc.username_pw_set("loraexplora", "ttn-account-v2.Cz...<redacted>...")
mqttc.connect("eu.thethings.network", 1883, 10)

Maybe update the Python MQTT library: pip install paho-mqtt --upgrade (and add the 4th parameter to on_connect like shown earlier.)