DroneScout Receiver Manual - version 1.0 May 2022 - © BlueMark Innovations BV 2022
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3 MQTT
MESSAGES
The receiver generates two types of MQTT messages (JSON format):
Status messages
- every minute, the receiver will send a status message
Data messages
- data messages with Remote ID data.
Status messages
The receiver will publish every minute a status message. An example message is shown below.
Figure 4 - Example receiver status message.
This message contains several sections:
protocol
- indicates the protocol version. Currently only protocol 1.0 exists.
status
- a status message contains a section status.
sensor ID
- the sensor ID set in dronescout.conf
timestamp
- the epoch time stamp (in milliseconds)
firmware version
- the current firmware version of the receiver
model
- the model of the receiver. This is model ds230.
status
- the status, can be “normal” or “invalid license”. If the license is invalid,
no data will be published.
