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+# Homebrew MQTT
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+HBMQTT is an open source [MQTT](http://www.mqtt.org) broker written with Python using asynchronous I/O.
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+## Build status
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/beerfactory/hbmqtt.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/beerfactory/hbmqtt)
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