5 engineers on Hacker News describe using MQTT first-hand: 3 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I stick with ESPHome and MQTT because I can inspect and modify the behaviors of everything with free and open tools.”
endorse · personal · baby_souffle · 2026-08-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Once we replaced it with MQTT, we realized we could use it for IPC, too.”
endorse · production · anilakar · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run long do running TLS connections using MQTT, this works for 5-6 figure of units.”
endorse · production · as-j · 2020-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've landed on a mixture of MQTT and Zigbee communicating devices, the latter being much easier to set up and maintain.”
neutral · personal · carlgreene · 2024-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I monitor and automate the whole shebang using a venusgx, mqtt, rpi with openhab.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · madaxe_again · 2021-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?