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Python client: static publish method [message #1495430]

Tue, 02 December 2014 07:47

a b

Messages: 2
Registered: December 2014

Junior Member

Dear all,

I'm experimenting with the python paho lib in order to publish some information via mqtt.
The mqtt client I want to embed into an existing python script.

I'm a python starter and have generally the client is running. My only issue is that I cannot embed the connect/reconnect mechanism within a method.
When I just put the initialization of the client in a .py file everything is working perfectly.
When I'm embedding the initialization in the connect method and I try to run it before publication, then it fails:

in loop_forever
    self.reconnect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py", line 743, in reconnect
    self._sock.setblocking(0)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'setblocking'

The same applies when I want to keep the connection alive.

I'm doing this because I need to create a publish method that I can use as "fire and forget". I need to have a mechanism that when someone tries to publish something the publish method checks if the connection is established, otherwise do it and publish it. The connection can stay open. Unfortunately my internet connection is quite unstable which forces me to check that.

Can someone give me some advices or even some code snippets how to do that best?

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Re: Python client: static publish method [message #1498233 is a reply to message #1495430]

Thu, 04 December 2014 09:09

a b

Messages: 2
Registered: December 2014

Junior Member

I think I found my issue.
In my script I'm having an additional other socket. This script needs the following parameter set:
socket.setdefaulttimeout(0)

When removing this I can get it working.

By the way:
Is there a proper way to check if the paho client is connected?

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