MQTT input and output as text

Hi all,

I’ve been playing with MQTT over the last week, but I’m struggling with getting topics that have a string value to display in me dashboard. If I’m sending number value all is fine, as there are plenty of tools to handle number values. Can anyone one with a bit of java experience help me with the code I need to add the MQTT message to a text box like paragraph or heading.

Thanks,

Steve