Azure IoT Central - Multiple Topic Paths into one device

Question

I have a physical hardware device that I have zero access to the code. The device is preconfigured to send data via MQTT. I've managed to connect the device to IoT Central however the device sends data to a variety of different topics which I think is causing the IoT Central to disconnect the device.

The topics are as follows:

• MqttTopicBase/clientinfo
• MqttTopicBase/clientstatus
• MqttTopicBase/port/n/status
• MqttTopicBase/port/n/event
• MqttTopicBase/port/n/pdi
• MqttTopicBase/port/n/pdo

Where n is between 1-8 and I somehow need to capture this number.

Is it possible to configure IoT Central to access data from multiple different topics (and ideally capture the n value from the topics), and if not are there any suggested workarounds or intermediary steps in order to achieve this.

Thanks

Answer 1

Azure IoT Central is not a full-featured MQTT broker. Please check how to Communicate with your IoT hub using the MQTT protocol - it applies to IoT Central as well.

To workaround you can also use Azure IoT Central Device Bridge , IoT Plug and Play bridge or Azure IoT Edge MQTT broker .