Thanks all.
Setting up a VM and then doing Node-Red and mosquitto.... Over my skill set.
In the mean time I have been getting away with using hive to do preliminary testing and it works simply be subscribing to the topic here and getting my device to publish to the topic using hive and all is good.
That seems too easy to be true.
The next question is encryption. It isn't that I need it, but I would be leaving the door wide open for fake injections and cause havoc if misused.
I've NEVER used it before and so it begs the question: Is the encryption done only at the ends or does the broker need to be included in the equation?
