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Aedes alternatives for AI agents.

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Aedes

Barebone MQTT broker that can run on any stream server, the node way

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#1

Kuzzle

Similarity 136Trust 93Excellent 100

Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -

1.6K starsMay 21, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaScriptIoT
$ npx skills add kuzzleio/kuzzle
#2

Tbmq

Similarity 133Trust 88Excellent 86

The ultimate distributed MQTT broker. Handles 100M+ connections and 10M msg/sec with ease. Built on Kafka to provide industrial-grade persistence and eliminate data loss.

734 starsJun 15, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add thingsboard/tbmq
#3

Server

Similarity 132Trust 87Strong 73

The fully compliant, embeddable high-performance Go MQTT v5 server for IoT, smarthome, and pubsub

1.9K starsApr 16, 2025 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add mochi-mqtt/server
#4

Comqtt

Similarity 129Trust 93Excellent 96

A lightweight, high-performance go mqtt server(v3.0|v3.1.1|v5.0) supporting distributed cluster

1.2K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add wind-c/comqtt
#5

Thinglinks

Similarity 128Trust 89Excellent 97

Enterprise-grade IoT platform powered by ThingLinks Engine. Supports MQTT / HTTP / CoAP / TCP / Modbus, rule engine, Visual display screen & multi-tenancy. Millions of connections per node.

1.1K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add mqttsnet/thinglinks
#6

Tuyapi

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 87

🌧 An easy-to-use API for devices that use Tuya's cloud services. Documentation: https://codetheweb.github.io/tuyapi.

2.3K starsOct 9, 2025 pushrobotics-iotJavaScriptIoT
$ npx skills add codetheweb/tuyapi
#7

Bifromq

Similarity 125Trust 88Excellent 86

Apache BifroMQ (Incubating) is a high-performance, distributed MQTT broker that natively supports multi-tenancy. It is designed to enable the building of large-scale IoT device connectivity and messaging systems.

771 starsJun 12, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add apache/bifromq
#8

Shellhub

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

:computer: Get seamless remote access to any Linux device. Centralized SSH for the edge and cloud computing

2.0K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotTypeScriptIoT
$ npx skills add shellhub-io/shellhub
#9

Tuya Cloudcutter

Similarity 123Trust 94Excellent 100

A tool that disconnects Tuya IoT devices from the cloud, allowing them to run completely locally.

1.8K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add tuya-cloudcutter/tuya-cloudcutter
#10

Homeassistant Powercalc

Similarity 123Trust 95Excellent 100

Home Assistant Custom component to calculate estimated power consumption of lights and other appliances

1.5K starsJun 14, 2026 pushrobotics-iotPythonIoT
$ npx skills add bramstroker/homeassistant-powercalc
#11

OpenBK7231T App

Similarity 123Trust 91Excellent 100

Open source firmware (Tasmota/Esphome replacement) for BK7231T, BK7231N, BL2028N, T34, XR809, W800/W801, W600/W601, BL602, LN882H, Realtek chips and more

2.2K starsJun 8, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add openshwprojects/OpenBK7231T_App
#12

Paho.Mqtt.C

Similarity 122Trust 90Excellent 100

An Eclipse Paho C client library for MQTT for Windows, Linux and MacOS. API documentation: https://eclipse-paho.github.io/paho.mqtt.c/

2.3K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrobotics-iotCIoT
$ npx skills add eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.c
#13

Rumqtt

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 99

The MQTT ecosystem in rust

2.1K starsMay 1, 2026 pushrobotics-iotRustIoT
$ npx skills add bytebeamio/rumqtt
#14

ThingsGateway

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 100

ThingsGateway is a cross-platform, high-performance gateway for edge data acquisition and IoT connectivity. Developed with .NET 8, it offers a suite of powerful tools, including advanced PLC communication libraries and debugging software.

1.4K starsJun 3, 2026 pushrobotics-iotC#IoT
$ npx skills add ThingsGateway/ThingsGateway
#15

Hivemq Community Edition

Similarity 122Trust 95Excellent 100

HiveMQ CE is a Java-based open source MQTT broker that fully supports MQTT 3.x and MQTT 5. It is the foundation of the HiveMQ Enterprise Connectivity and Messaging Platform

1.2K starsJun 13, 2026 pushrobotics-iotJavaIoT
$ npx skills add hivemq/hivemq-community-edition
#16

Ekuiper

Similarity 122Trust 91Excellent 100

Lightweight data stream processing engine for IoT edge

1.7K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrobotics-iotGoIoT
$ npx skills add lf-edge/ekuiper

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