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HiveMQ Testing
  • Trial versions are only for evaluation and testing purposes. Production usage is prohibited.
  • Up to 25 connections are allowed. Please contact us if you require additional connections.
  • The evaluation version of all Enterprise Extensions is limited to operating for only 5 hours. You will need to restart HiveMQ each time you want to reset the 5-hour limit. Please contact us if you would like a longer evaluation license.
  • You can use the trial version of our MQTT Broker without charge for up to 6 months after the download.

What's included?

Since this is a trial, there are limitations to what you can do with the product. Trial versions are only for evaluation and testing purposes. Production usage is prohibited. Please Contact Us if you have any issues.

HiveMQ Platform

Full self-service platform setting the enterprise standard for MQTT

HiveMQ MQTT Broker

The Trusted Enterprise-Grade MQTT Broker

HiveMQ Swarm

Load testing to find scalability, performance and reliability issues

HiveMQ Control Center

MQTT Monitoring and Management Solution

Data streaming extensions

Integrate with your favorite streaming platform - Kafka, Amazon Kensis, Google Pub/Sub, ...

Database and analytics extensions

Integrate with your favorite database - MongoDB, PosgreSQL, MySQL, ...

1

Pre-installation requirements

To install HiveMQ MQTT Broker, you need Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X with Java Runtime Environment 11 or newer. See a list of detailed list of requirements.

2

Unpack and run on Linux/Mac OS X

Go to the directory where you placed the download and unpack the ZIP archive, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

cd <hivemq_install_directory>
unzip hivemq-<version>.zip

Go to the bin folder of the install directory and set permissions (the typical location is /opt/hivemq/). The chmod 775 command gives the user/owner and groups read, write, and execute rights. All others have read-only access:

cd <hivemq_install_directory>/bin
chmod 755 run.sh

To run the shell script and get HiveMQ started, enter:

./run.sh
3

Unpack and run on Windows

Use your file browser to extract the ZIP archive to the directory of your choice.

  • To start the batch file, open the bin folder and double click run.bat.
  • By default, the HiveMQ broker starts on localhost IP address 127.0.0.1 and listens on port 1883.
4

Verify that HiveMQ is running

  • Navigate with your browser to http://localhost:8080. If you see the login dialog for the HiveMQ Control Center, you know that HiveMQ is up and running.
  • HiveMQ Control Center is part of the standard HiveMQ distribution and is a web application that you can access from your browser. You do not need to install any additional software on your computer to use the control center.
HiveMQ Control Center

You can login with the default credentials (user: admin password: hivemq)

Any MQTT client can be connected to HiveMQ on port 1883 now.

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