how do I add a retain to a feeds/topic for publishing? Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[gbenna]

I have a system that gets various sensor readings and hands them off to an ESP8266-01. This happens every two hrs when the ESP-01 is powered up. It then connects to the wifi and Adafruit and publishes the sensor values to 5 feed topics. I am building an iphone app which connects to
Adafruit and subscribe to the topics. The problem lies in that I don't want my phone to be on/ open/ and the app on and open all the time so I can get the updates. Is there anyway to add a retain to the published topics, or is there some way to have the phone app get the current topic values when it launches. I read something about /get but I don't know how to do that either. Can you point me to a tutorial on how to do either or both of these. Or do I need to look at another host server to be able to do this?
I like you service but I do need this ability!

[gbenna]

So I am trying to use /get.
Here is what I have

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session = [[MQTTSession alloc] init];
    session.userName = @"123456";
    session.password = @"1234567890";
    session.transport = transport;
    session.delegate = self;
    [session connectWithConnectHandler:^(NSError *error) {
       
            if(!error){
               
                [session subscribeToTopic:@"12345/feeds/+" atLevel:1 subscribeHandler:^(NSError *error, NSArray *gQoss){
                   
            if (error) {
                NSLog(@"Subscription failed %@", error.localizedDescription);
            } else {
                NSLog(@"Subscription sucessfull! Granted Qos: %@", gQoss);
                dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(5 * NSEC_PER_SEC)), dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                trip = @"0";
                NSData* data = [trip dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
[u]//this is where I am trying to use the /get.  if I don't put /get the value does change so I know the
//publishing is correct.  I think it is because :data is a string and not an int.  Is there some way
//I can use this to publish an int?  am I correct in my assumption or is there another way?[/u]
                [session publishData:data onTopic:@"gbenna/feeds/temperature/get" retain:NO qos:1 publishHandler:nil];
                NSLog(@"%@", trip);
                NSLog(@"%d",trigger);
                    });}
        }]; }
            else {NSLog(@"[connectWithConnectHandler]Error Connect %@", error.localizedDescription);}
    }];}

I start to check for updates before this publish is sent. If I send it without /get it updates to 0 value but with /get nothing.

[brubell]

Is there anyway to add a retain to the published topics,

The retain publish flag is not supported by Adafruit IO's MQTT broker, we use a /get topic modifier instead (https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/mqtt.h ... -get-topic).

You want to subscribe to the topic you'd like to publish to first, then publish to its /get modifier (https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/mqtt.h ... -get-topic). I don't fully follow the code you posted above - could you shed some light on what it's doing?