Advertise Mosquitto on mDNS/Avahi

[Brandon_Beierle]

In trying to make my network fault tolerant/self healing, I’m wanting to use the Avahi that’s built in to Home Assistant to advertise the Mosquitto add-in, so that my tasmota devices will automagically find it.

Does anyone know if there’s a way to configure this? I know it can be done on a separate device, but this goes against the principle of simplifying things and minimizing failure points.

Thanks in advance

[Brandon_Beierle]

Anyone have any input?

[juan89 (Juan)]

Hi there, did you find anything on this?

I recently posted a feature request but not getting any constructive feedback.

Thanks

Mosquitto broker - Announcing/Advertising MQTT service via mDNS

Ok, it is clear that you guys are not interested, and your comments are not constructive at all. I’ve found three posts on the community asking for the same thing. It is useful! Whether you use it for Tasmota or not. As I said, many devices could benefit from the MQTT service being advertised.

[juan89 (Juan)]

Hey, I managed to find a solution

Mosquitto broker - Announcing/Advertising MQTT service via mDNS

I did not want to post it there because is not an issue. But I managed to do it myself. Here is a simple python script that gives you access to the zeroconf instance of HA for anyone interested. To run it, you need HACS and Pyscript integration. import socket from homeassistant.components import zeroconf from zeroconf.asyncio import AsyncServiceInfo def register_service(type, name, ip, port): aiozc = zeroconf.async_get_async_instance(hass) type += "._tcp.local." info = AsyncServi…

I hope this helps.

[Brandon_Beierle]

I created an Add-on using Avahi that can be installed in Home Assistant. It works well, and gives the option to advertise an alternative name for your Home Assistant instance as well. I created it to support a line of smart MQTT-based devices I launched, but it will work for any scenario.

You can get it here: GitHub - viragelabs/addons: Home Assistant Addons for Virage Laboratories devices.