It's necessary to create Airthings MQTT client with its ID and certificate. You can either get a certificate and a private key from us or upload a self-signed certificate to authorize your client.

For the purpose of demonstration, MQTT explorer will be used to connect and subscribe to the MQTT broker.

Requirements

Access to an Airthings for Business account and its accountId
An onboarded, online device within the account

Create Airthings MQTT client

Navigate to MQTT Integration in dashboard
Create a client
Download/upload a certificate to activate the client. Uploading a certificate only allow file types of .cert
and .pem
Add the location(s) you want the client to subscribe to

After a client is created, you are now ready to connect and receive data from us.

Connect to Airthings MQTT Broker

Use the following connection details:

Field	Value
Protocol	`mqtts` or `mqtt` with Use TLS/SSL option
Host	`mqtt.airthings.com`
Port	`8883`
Client ID	Airthings MQTT client ID, e.g. `00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000`
CA File	Download this file
Certificate File	Use `-cert.pem` you downloaded/uploaded from/to Airthings dashboard
Key File	Use `-key.pem` you downloaded/uploaded from/to Airthings dashboard

Note: Airthings MQTT does not use username and password

Here is an example using MQTT explorer:

Subscribe to Device Data

A wildcard-subscription can be made to the topic {accountId}/# to receive the first samples via MQTT.
See Topics to read more about all available topics.

Here is an example of a subscription to data from all accessible locations in the account using MQTT explorer: