[SOLVED] Socket programming versus MQTT

stockton · 01-21-2018, 09:35 AM

Would someone please be kind enough to explain to me the difference between MQTT and socket programming.
I have, for many years done socket programming, and I am not talking websockets.
I am talking machine to machine communication. I have mainly used C but also php, python and bash.
I know MQTT has been around for a while but it has only just raised itself in my mind. So I need to know what is different.
I can already do many to one as well as one to many, so what does MQTT buy me?

keefaz · 01-21-2018, 10:14 AM

MQTT is a network protocol (eg how the message is formed) on top of TCP/IP and a socket is a communication end point, you use both to send MQTT packets