Publishing messages with a GUI tool
Now, we will use the MQTT.fx GUI utility to generate another MQTT client that publishes another message to the same topic, sensors/octocopter01/altitude. Follow these steps:
- Go to the MQTT.fx window in which you established a connection and subscribed to a topic.
- Click
Publish
and entersensors/octocopter01/altitude
in the dropdown at the left-hand side of thePublish
button. - Enter the following text in the textbox below the
Publish
button:32 f
, as shown in the following screenshot:

- Then, click the
Publish
button. MQTT.fx will publish the entered text to the specified topic.
If you don't want to work with the MQTT.fx utility, you can run another mosquitto_pub
command to generate another MQTT client that publishes a message to the topic. You just need to open another Terminal in macOS or Linux, or another Command Prompt in Windows, go to the directory in which Mosquitto is installed, and run the following command:
mosquitto_pub -V mqttv311 -t sensors/octocopter01...