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Improved wording for the MQTT Documentation

Open creyD opened this issue 5 years ago • 6 comments

As mentioned in this issue the wording of this section is not optimal. I would suggest to change it to this small paragraph and word change.

creyD avatar Jun 25 '20 09:06 creyD

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CLAassistant avatar Jun 25 '20 09:06 CLAassistant

@ashvayka could you please approve this, if you are ok with the new wording?

creyD avatar Jun 28 '20 10:06 creyD

Any update on this?

creyD avatar Jul 25 '20 12:07 creyD

This is not entirely correct. We act as a server that accept MQTT connections/publish and subscribe requests, but to a limited number of topics. You can also use external MQTT broker in combination with MQTT Integration to consume data from other brokers or devices that do not support our MQTT topics/payload format.

ashvayka avatar Aug 04 '20 06:08 ashvayka

But you can't use the ThingsBoard Server instance as an MQTT broker and that is what people take from this bit of the documentation. Currently the ThingsBoard basically acts as a MQTT client, which stores the information. People have to use an external MQTT broker to use MQTT devices with ThingsBoard. You may edit my piece if this wasn't clear from what I've wrote. @ashvayka

creyD avatar Aug 04 '20 10:08 creyD

Or is this functionality that is planned to work in the future? @ashvayka

creyD avatar Aug 28 '20 15:08 creyD