[SOLVED] Properly fetch MQTT states

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

@rlkoshak

This would make a good tutorial post, maybe with how to send the empty message using mosquitto_pub. All of us at one point or another run into retained messages problems and clearing them is not intuitive.

Done:

Clearing MQTT retained messages

Clearing retained messages in mosquitto Purpose The purpose of this tutorial is to present solutions to clear retained messages in the Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT Broker. Retained messages can be troublesome and/or unwanted. Many mosquitto tutorials included a retain option in the configuration and setup of mosquitto. This is likely to create problems in the future. This tutorial is created for Linux users with a package installation on mosquitto. Other users will have to find the files and paths r…