ithasu/mqtttoolbox

A simple web application to manipulate MQTT messages. (Fullstack typescript).

• 👋 Hi, I’m @ItHasU, my real name is Matthieu Aubry. My nickname comes from the The Matrix (Has You).
• 👀 I’m interested in everything that can be programmed
• 🌱 I've been working in the field of computer science since 2006.
  • First, a PhD thesis at the European Center for Virtual Reality,
  • than as an engineer and project manager at Cervval.

As I cite Cervval, I would like to mention that the repositories here are only personal projects.

mqtttoolbox's Issues

Cron

It would be useful to plan some actions/messages that would be schedules as a cron job. This would allow to schedule repetitive actions for some devices (heaters, lamps, ...)

Tasks

• Allow to add a new planned message
• Group planned messages by scenario
• Name scenario
• Allow to enable / disable scenarios
• Plan next message to be sent from current date & scenarios (+ unit test)

Enhanced docker support

• Handle correct signal when docker stop is executed.
• Make sure scheduled messages are well stored before exit.

Multiple dashboard

It would be nice to allow multiple dashboards. The user would be able to switch between them.

If multi-user feature is developed, it would be nice that users can share the dashboards.

Trigger scripts

Write scripts in the browser, run them on the server at any time.

Possible triggers:

• Time (At, Cron, Interval ...)
• Topic
• Custom Event (from another script, from HTTP API)

Live update of values

Allowing user to get live updates of values would be great instead of fetching new values every 2 seconds.

Geo support

• Add a map with openlayer
• Display location of things from MQTT message

Create config file if needed

If config file is not existing or config file fails to load, create a new one empty.

If the config file exists but fails to load, a copy should be created to avoid loosing everything if it can be manually fixed.

Save messages history on exit

When updating the app, all saved messages are lost. It would be great that values get saved so we don't need to get them again when restarting the app.

Full screen dashboard editor

The current editor for the dashboard is not convenient to use since it requires to switch between the "Config" and the "Dashboard" pages.

Also the editor is relatively small on the page.

Notifications

Trigger a notification when a message is received.

Docker image production

Creating docker image is the simplest way to deploy the app. Since it is planned to support RPi, the best way is to produce images for the ARM platform.

One way to do it in github actions is to use this action :
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/build-and-push-docker-images

Move config.json in docker image

It would be better to have the config.json file in a separated folder. This would be easier for volumes.

Authentication

Feature

We want the HTTP server to make sure that only authorized users can access to the API and files.

Validation criteria

• User can login using a secret ID
• Authentication must be transfered in a secure way (over HTTPS)
• If not authenticated, any route other than login must return 401.

Tasks

• Define authentication strategy
• Search for an existing middleware or implement a simple one if possible to limit dependencies

Schedule

Allow the schedule of MQTT messages to postpone the publishing of a payload on a topic.

Cron not handling time zones

Cron tasks are scheduled on the docker image time zone. It should be executed based on the server time zone or the client time zone.