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thomasnordquist
Support for Decoding Sparkplug-B Payloads
This is an essential feature for many IIoT devices as they use CirrusLink's Sparkplug-B specification. There is already a project for it: https://github.com/Cirrus-Link/Sparkplug/tree/master/client_libraries/javascript/sparkplug-payload
A selection of decoding options would be great, similar to MQTT.fx
Yes, this would be a great thing to add, including support for sending sparkplug with a list of name and value pairs, birth, death and other certs too.
I am sending a pull request to decode sparkplugb, I am a go developer not a js dev so this first change if accepted in the future I could try to add more support for sending.
https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer/pull/582
So this is about be able to see the sparkplug payload in the views and in the diff panels.
There seems to be a serious bug with this implementation.
I have no idea what this "Sparkplug" format is, but MQTT Explorer is erroneously trying to use it to decode some topics that are plain text/floating point numbers. It appears to think any string of 5 characters that starts with "5" is Sparkplug, and only shows {} for the value (first noticed this with humidity sensors that report values like 55.49 but also confirmed the same thing happens with strings like 50000 5____ and 5abcd). I don't even see a way to force the decoding off and show the raw values, so the real content of these topics is basically invisible in MQTT Explorer.
