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 # meshtastic-mqtt-client
 This is a simple program that accesses an MQTT server in which meshtastic routers publish messages and shows them on a gui.
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+The decoding of the protobuf messages is based on josh pirihi's great work here:
+https://github.com/joshpirihi/meshtastic-mqtt
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