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# [MQTT Explorer](https://thomasnordquist.github.io/MQTT-Explorer/)
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## Version {{ version }}
A MQTT Tool to get a quick overview of your MQTT topics and integrate new devices/services more efficiently.
- Visualize topics and topic activity
- Delete retained topics
- Search/filter topics
- Delete topic recursively
- Publish topics
- Plot numeric topics
- Keep a history of each topic
**MQTT Explorer** strives to be THE MQTT swiss-army-knife.
The perfect tool to integrate new services, IoT devices in your network.
The hierarchical view of your broker allows for a quick understanding what is going on.
## Download
Developing this tool takes a lot of effort, sweat and time, please consider rating the App on the Windows or Mac app store <img src="./res/star.svg" width="16" /><img src="./res/star.svg" width="16" /><img src="./res/star.svg" width="16" /><img src="./res/star.svg" width="16" /><img src="./res/star.svg" width="16" />.
If you feel like a feature is missing or you found a bug, please leave me a [comment / issue](https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer/issues) and I'll see what I can do.
| Platform | | Downloads |
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| ![windows](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7721625/51445407-b4172080-1d04-11e9-8c70-d8413d1d6d8b.png) | **Windows** | <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9PP8SFM082WD?ocid=badge"><img src="https://assets.windowsphone.com/85864462-9c82-451e-9355-a3d5f874397a/English_get-it-from-MS_InvariantCulture_Default.png" width="165" /></a><br />**{{windowsTargets}}** |
| ![mac](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7721625/51445390-921d9e00-1d04-11e9-8339-351469ef20ae.png) | **Mac** | <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/mqtt-explorer/id1455214828?mt=12&app=apps"><img src="https://linkmaker.itunes.apple.com/en-us/badge-lrg.svg?releaseDate=2019-03-07T00:00:00Z&kind=desktopapp&bubble=macos_apps" width="165" height="40"/></a><br />**{{macTargets}}** |
| ![ubuntu](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7721625/51445401-a5306e00-1d04-11e9-9b9b-20e196b82142.png) | **Ubuntu**<br />*also for debian, mint, neon, fedora, etc...* | <a href="https://snapcraft.io/mqtt-explorer" title="Get it from the Snap Store"><img src="https://snapcraft.io/static/images/badges/en/snap-store-black.svg" width="165" /></a><br />`snap install mqtt-explorer`<br />[Ubuntu Store](snap://mqtt-explorer) |
| ![linux](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7721625/51445392-947ff800-1d04-11e9-8c7f-a30efb755651.png) | **Linux**<br />*almost every linux* | **{{linuxTargets}}**<br />*Run AppImage:<br />Make it executable and double-click it.* |
[More Downloads](https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer/releases)
## Video
![screencast](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7721625/53954172-b7f4db80-40d5-11e9-852c-f8d85e511a00.gif)
## Performance
This App is optimized to handle thousands of topics and at hundreds of thousands messages per minute.
Custom subscriptions can limit the amount of messages **MQTT Explorer** needs to process, subscriptions can be managed in the advanced connection settings.
In very large productive environments brokers may handle an extreme load of topics, subscribing with a wildcard topic is in this scenario not advised.
## Develop
PRs and issues are welcome.
Install with `npm run install`, build with `npm run build`
Start with `npm run start`
The `app` directory contains all the rendering logic, the `backend` directory currently contains the models, tests, connection management, `src` contains all the electron bindings. [mqttjs](https://github.com/mqttjs/MQTT.js) is used to facilitate communication to MQTT brokers.
## Automated Tests
To achieve a reliable product automated tests run regularly on travis.
- Data model
- MQTT integration
- UI-Tests (The demo is a recorded ui test)
A [mosquitto](https://mosquitto.org/) MQTT broker is required to run the ui-tests.
## IoT Applications
List of useful IoT applications using MQTT to integrate devices / services
- [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/) - Open source home automation gateway
- [OpenHAB](https://www.openhab.org/) - Smart Home Gateway
- [Node-RED](https://nodered.org/) - Flow-based programming for the Internet of Things
- [zigbee2mqtt](https://github.com/Koenkk/zigbee2mqtt) - A ZigBee to MQTT bridge
- [Tasmota](https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota) - ESP8266 firmware with MQTT support
## Telemetry
No personal data is processed, sent or stored.
The app sends telemetry and error reports, this enables me to quickly react on bugs/errors and understand what's going on. Responding quickly to errors is one key element in producing a reliable software product.
It basically sends: app version, processor architecture, operating system, used memory, user interactions and error stacks.
<details>
<summary>Example telemetry
</summary>
```javascript
{ system: { arch: 'x64', platform: 'darwin' },
appVersion: '0.0.7',
events: { HELLO_EVENT: [ 1547714886134 ] },
now: 1547714886135,
transactionId: '1767d251-f492-4f2c-aa62-88add3acc26b' }
{ errors:
[ { time: 1547714887921,
message: 'He\'s dead Jim!',
stack:
'Error: He\'s dead Jim!\n at ./src/tracking.ts.exports.default (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142765:11)\n at new Promise (<anonymous>)\n at Object../src/tracking.ts (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142764:1)\n at __webpack_require__ (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:20:30)\n at Object../src/index.tsx (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142618:1)\n at __webpack_require__ (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:20:30)\n at ../backend/node_modules/charenc/charenc.js.charenc.utf8.stringToBytes (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:84:18)\n at ./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:87:10' } ],
now: 1547714887921,
transactionId: '53bf9aac-e695-40cc-9a81-b1cf3398843d' }
```
</details>
Even though the data is purely technical, an option to disable telemetry is planned. [#52](https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer/issues/52)
## License
[AGPL 3](./LICENSE)