Hi guys I have a problem between Node-Red and Python communicating through the broker Mqtt mosquitto. The problem is that I cannot convert the message.payload sent by the broker to python to pass it as simple user input. Code Example: #!/usr/bin/python3 import os import sys import json import …

I am not a programmer, but where did you import paho.mqtt.client? In my code I have this at the start: import time import sys import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt import blinkt Yours seems to be missing that line. But I shall restate: I am not a programmer

from paho.mqtt.client import * client = Client(client_id = "IA")

if you look at the code it is imported after: #MQTT I do it to keep track. common libraries import them at the beginning

[image] Diego.82: I cannot convert the message.payload sent by the broker to python In node-red, add a debug node - set to display the complete msg object - to the node feeding the mqtt-out node so we can see what the data looks like.

I'll explain better if I define: input_text = input ("Tell me ...") and I set the answer: response = k.respond (input_text) then by entering the text from the keyboard the system responds correctly while if instead of "input_text" I insert: response = k.respond (str (message.payload.decode ("utf…

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Diego.82 13 April 2022 11:35 6

Actually I already know how the data looks in fact convert them to utf8 via:
print (str (message.payload.decode ("utf-8")))

my problem is to convert print to input for python. As if given from terminal entries.

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