Mqtt toolbox in Matlab unable to process all mqtt messages

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Hi all,
I have here an application which relies on mqtt traffic being read into matlab. Unfortunately, it seems that the mqtt toolbox is unable to process all messages in a topic: when i suscribe to a certain topic from within mosquitto_sub, I collect +- 40000messages in a 15s timeframe, whilst in MAtlab I'm only able to gather like 4000 messages.
I'm sure the broker can handle this amount of messages, but somehow, 90% of the packets are not detected in the variable mqttData15s.
Has anyone a solution for this inconveniece ,(R2018b)
Regards
Jeroen
try
try
mysub=subscribe(myMQTT,'node/#','QoS',2);
catch
end
disp('Gathering live data 16s....');
pause(15);
mqttData15s=mysub.readall;
mysub.unsubscribe;
myMQTT.disconnect;
clear myMQTT
clear mysub
disp('Done.');
catch
disp('MQTT read error');
mysub.unsubscribe;
myMQTT.disconnect;
clear myMQTT
clear mysub
end

Answers (3)

Johan
Johan on 30 Sep 2019
Sorry that I dont have a solution for you but just wanted to add to this topic.
I also have a situation where the broker can send messages at high-throughput (hundreds of hz). While the broker has no issue of dealing with this (other clients get the data just fine) there seems to be an issue with the matlab callback system that adds a ~15 ms delay for the callback to even intiate.
You can see that for instance in the simple example code below (also tested this internally with more precise measures)
Interestingly the toolbox can send messages at highspeeds (sub-millisecond) but the callback is relatively slow. Would really like to see a solution for this as it really diminsihes the useability of this toolbox for device communication.
function testMqtt()
myMQTT = mqtt('tcp://127.0.0.1');
mySub = subscribe(myMQTT,'myTopic');
mySub.Callback = @msgReceived;
for (i=1:10)
tic
publish(myMQTT, 'myTopic', 'Hello World!');
pause(1);
end
end
function msgReceived(topic, msg)
toc
end

Sylvain
Sylvain on 24 Jan 2020
I suspected the Quality Of Service set to 2, but it is not influencing the number of readings

Sylvain
Sylvain on 25 Jan 2020
I also confirm that the function readall is not performing as expected, causing a downsampling.
I am generating a sinus wave 2Hz and publish the signal. Using the timestamp of the broker is good enough.
clear all;close all;clc
format long
topic = 'TOPIC/'
MQTTBrokerIPAdress = 'tcp://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX'
myMQTT=mqtt(MQTTBrokerIPAdress) %raspberry pi address
%% Animated Lines
hfig = figure;clf
hax = axes(hfig);
anim_lineX = animatedline('Parent',hax,'Color','blue','MaximumNumPoints',500);
DisplayXlim = 5; %seonds
%% Get the first timestamp to set the t0
SubX = subscribe(myMQTT,topic,'QoS',0);
NmessagesToRead = SubX.MessageCount;
while NmessagesToRead < 1
pause(0.001)
NmessagesToRead = SubX.MessageCount;
end
SubX.unsubscribe
[~,message_time]=SubX.read; %get the time
t0 = datenum(message_time);
%% Start the reading
for ii=1:10
SubX = subscribe(myMQTT,topic,'QoS',0);
NmessagesToRead = SubX.MessageCount;
while NmessagesToRead < 500 %
pause(0.001)
NmessagesToRead = SubX.MessageCount;
end
%% Extract the data
SubX.MessageCount
messageX = SubX.readall;
SubX.unsubscribe
x = str2double(messageX.Data);
tx = datenum(messageX.Time);
time = (tx-t0)*1e5;
%% Manage Axis
if time(end) <= DisplayXlim
hax.XLim = [0 DisplayXlim];
else
hax.XLim = [(time(end) - DisplayXlim) time(end)];
end
%2D plot
addpoints(anim_lineX,time,x)
drawnow limitrate
end
Sinus wave using the readall function
In comparison, here is what you get if you loop the Sub.read(). Still some distortion though.
using the read function

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