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Version: Mosquitto 3.0

MQTT Control API

What is a CONTROL API​

The broker and several plugins provide so-called control APIs. These APIs are implemented via specific MQTT topics, in a request-response message-workflow.

The broker for example itself provides a $CONTROL/broker/v1 topic, where a client can publish it's request to.

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The broker control API must be enabled explicitly, setting enable_control_api true in the broker configuration.

A requested contains a list of commands and each command item can have a field named correlationData which will be included in the broker response message. A response messages will be published on the topic $CONTROL/broker/v1/response.

Every plugin has its own request/response topic and some commands require additional request parameters. The detailed information about these topics and parameters can be found in the sub-pages.