diff --git a/.eslintrc.js b/.eslintrc.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bed546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.eslintrc.js
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+module.exports = {
+  "ecmaFeatures": {
+    "modules": true,
+    "spread" : true,
+    "restParams" : true
+  },
+  "env": {
+    "es6": true,
+    "node": true,
+    "mocha": true
+  },
+  "parserOptions": {
+    "ecmaVersion": 2017,
+    "sourceType": "module"
+  },
+  "extends": "eslint:recommended",
+  "rules": {
+    "indent": [
+      "error",
+      2
+    ],
+    "no-console": 0,
+    "semi": ["error", "never"],
+    "linebreak-style": [
+      "error",
+      "unix"
+    ],
+    "quotes": [
+      "error",
+      "single"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/example/example.mjs b/example/example.mjs
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index 0000000..4791682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/example/example.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import Client from '../src/client'
+
+// let mqtt = new Client({id:'example-mqtt-client', url:'tcp://trantor:1883', topics:'test1'})
+let mqtt = new Client({id:'example-mqtt-client', connect:{host:'localhost', port:1883}, topics:'test1'})
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  await mqtt.connect()
+  await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+  await mqtt.subscribe('test2',{pub:true})
+  await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+  await mqtt.unsubscribe('test2')
+  await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 90ae21c..0000000
--- a/index.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-let opts = {
-  dirname: __dirname + '/lib',
-  // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2078915/a-regular-expression-to-exclude-a-word-string
-  filter: /^(?!index)([^\.].*)\.js?$/,
-  recursive: false,
-  merge: true // remove or comment to have each file in /lib be a prop/key in library...see node-require-all
-}
-module.exports = require('require-all')(opts);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9b8e62a..43492c2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 {
-  "name": "@uci/changeme",
+  "name": "@uci/mqtt",
   "version": "0.0.1",
-  "description": "A template for a starting a uci package",
-  "main": "index.js",
+  "description": "mqtt client with json payloads and mqtt custom broker",
+  "main": "src/index.js",
   "scripts": {
-    "test": "./node_modules/.bin/mocha --reporter list  --watch --timeout 30000",
-    "testd": "DEBUG='1:*' ./node_modules/.bin/mocha --reporter list  --watch --timeout 30000",
-    "testd2": "DEBUG='1:*,2:*' ./node_modules/.bin/mocha --reporter list  --watch --timeout 30000",
-    "testd3": "DEBUG='1:*,2:*,3:*' ./node_modules/.bin/mocha --reporter list  --watch --timeout 30000",
-    "testibc": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha test/ --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true"
+    "testw": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs --watch --recurse --watch-extensions mjs",
+    "test": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs",
+    "testci": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha  --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true",
+    "example": "node -r @std/esm  example/example",
+    "dev": "./node_modules/.bin/nodemon -r @std/esm -e mjs  example/example"
   },
   "author": "David Kebler",
   "license": "MIT",
@@ -26,12 +26,22 @@
   },
   "homepage": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/uci-changeme#readme",
   "dependencies": {
+    "@uci/logger": "0.0.1",
+    "async-mqtt": "^1.0.1",
+    "better-try-catch": "^0.6.2",
+    "lodash.isarray": "^4.0.0",
+    "lodash.merge": "^4.6.1",
+    "lodash.union": "^4.6.0",
+    "lodash.xor": "^4.5.0"
   },
+  "@std/esm": "cjs",
   "devDependencies": {
-    "chai": "^3.5.0",
-    "codecov": "^1.0.1",
-    "debug": "^2.6.8",
+    "@std/esm": "^0.18.0",
+    "nodemon": "^1.14.3",
+    "chai": "^4.1.2",
+    "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
+    "codecov": "^3.0.0",
     "istanbul": "^0.4.5",
-    "mocha": "^3.x"
+    "mocha": "^4.0.1"
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/amodule.js b/src/amodule.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ab85667..0000000
--- a/src/amodule.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-'use strict'
-
-// **********************************
-
-const
-	Something = require('apackagemodule')
-
-class aClass extends Something {
-	constructor(opts = {}) {
-		super()
-		this.id = opts.id // must be unique within a bus
-		this.desc = opts.desc
-
-	}
-
-	hello(what) { return 'Hello ' + what }
-
-}
-
-module.exports = {
-	aClass
-}
diff --git a/src/broker.mjs b/src/broker.mjs
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index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/src/client.mjs b/src/client.mjs
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index 0000000..213dcb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/client.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+import { connect } from 'async-mqtt'
+import merge from 'lodash.merge'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+import isArray from 'lodash.isarray'
+import union from 'lodash.union'
+import xor from 'lodash.xor'
+import logger from '@uci/logger'
+
+let log = {}
+
+
+export default class Client {
+  constructor (opts={}) {
+    this.id = opts.id || opts.name || 'mqtt:'+ new Date().getTime()
+    this.url = opts.url
+    // subscription topics can be string of commna delimited or array of strings see object see mqtt.js docs
+    this.topics = isArray(opts.topics) ? opts.topic : (opts.topics.split(',') || ['default'])
+    this.opts = opts.connect || {}  // see options for new mqtt.Client
+    // self bindings
+    this.connect = this.connect.bind(this)
+  }
+
+  async connect () {
+
+    return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
+
+      // connect returns connected mqtt client instance so merge it to class
+      // console.log(this)
+      let mqtt = connect(this.url,this.opts)
+      this._extend(mqtt,'subscribe,unsubscribe')
+      this._log()
+      this._listen()
+
+      this.on('reconnect', () => {
+        log.info('mqtt client reconnected to broker' )
+        this.subscribe(this.topics)
+      })
+
+      this.once('connect', () => {
+        this.subscribe(this.topics)
+        log.info('mqtt client connected to broker' )
+        resolve(`mqtt client connected to broker at ${this._client.options.host}`)
+      })
+
+      this.on('error', err => {
+        log.fatal({err:err},'connection error to broker' )
+        console.log('connection error',err.code)
+        reject(err)
+      })
+
+    }) //end promise
+
+  }
+
+  async subscribe(topic,options={}) {
+    if (options.pub) {
+      if (typeof topic==='string') topic = topic.split(',')
+      this.topics=union(this.topics,topic)
+    }
+    this._subscribe(topic,options)
+  }
+
+  async unsubscribe(topic,options={}) {
+    if (!options.pub) {
+      if (typeof topic==='string') topic = topic.split(',')
+      this.topics=xor(this.topics,topic)
+    }
+    this._unsubscribe(topic)
+  }
+
+
+  async send(topics,payload,options) {
+    if (typeof topics !=='string'|| !isArray(topics)) {
+      payload = topics
+      topics = this.topics
+    }
+    if (typeof topics ==='string') topics = topics.split(',')
+    let serial = this._serialize(payload)
+    if (serial) {
+      let pubs = []
+      topics.forEach( async topic => {
+        pubs.push(this.publish(topic,serial,options))
+      })
+      return await Promise.all(pubs)
+
+    }
+  }
+
+  registerPacketProcessor (func) {
+    this._packetProcess = func
+  }
+
+  _serialize(json) {
+    let [err,payload] = btc(JSON.stringify)(json)
+    if (err) {  // await mqtt.unsubscribe('test2')
+      // await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+      // console.log('+++++++++++++++')
+      log.warn(`error unable to stringify json:${json} - send aborted`)
+      return null
+    }
+    return payload
+  }
+
+  _listen () {
+    log.info('listening for incoming packets from broker')
+    this.on('message',messageProcess.bind(this))
+
+    async function messageProcess (topic,payload) {
+      // console.log('incoming messeage on topic', topic)
+      let packet = this._handlePayload(payload)
+      if (packet)  await this._packetProcess (packet,topic)
+
+    }
+  }
+
+  _handlePayload (payload) {
+    let [err,packet] = btc(JSON.parse)(payload.toString())
+    if (err) {
+      log.fatal({payload:payload},'Could not parse JSON of payload')
+      console.log('Could not parse JSON of payload', payload.toString())
+      return null
+    }
+    return packet
+  }
+
+  // default packet process just a simple console logger.  ignores any cmd: prop
+  _packetProcess (packet,topic) {
+    console.log('=========================')
+    console.log('default consumer processor\npacket from broker on topic:',topic)
+    console.dir(packet)
+    console.log(packet.status)
+    console.log('========================')
+  // await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+  // console.log('+++++++++++++++')=')
+  }
+
+  async _log() {
+
+    const LOG_OPTS = {
+      repo:'uci-mqtt',
+      npm:'@uci/mqtt',
+      file:'src/client.mjs',
+      class:'Client',
+      id:this.id,
+      instance_created:new Date().getTime(),
+      mqtt: this._client.options  // await mqtt.unsubscribe('test2')
+      // await mqtt.send({cmd:'test', status:'I\'m good'})
+      // console.log('+++++++++++++++')
+    }
+
+    log = logger.child(LOG_OPTS)
+
+    this.on('close', () => {
+      log.info('connection to broker was closed')
+    })
+
+    this.on('offline', () => {
+      log.info('this client has gone offline from broker')
+    })
+
+    this.on('packetsend', packet => {
+      log.info({packet:packet},'outgoing packet to mqtt broker')
+    })
+
+    this.on('packetreceive', packet => {
+      log.info({packet:packet},'incoming packet from mqtt broker')
+    })
+
+  }
+
+  _extend (obj, funcs) {
+    let temp = {}
+    funcs = funcs.split(',')
+    funcs.forEach(func => {
+      temp[func] = this[func]
+    })
+    merge(this,obj)
+    funcs.forEach(func => {
+      this['_'+func]=this[func]
+      this[func] = temp[func]
+    })
+  }
+
+}  // end mqtt client class
diff --git a/src/index.mjs b/src/index.mjs
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index 0000000..8ef5b60
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+++ b/src/index.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+import Client from './client'
+// import Broker from  './broker'
+
+export { Client as Client }
+// export { Broker as Broker }
+export default Client