Advice : MQTT Broker setting and trying to integrate Solar Assistant via MQTT

Hi

I really could do with some advice. Sorry for a bit of a long thread, trying to give as much context as possible in the hope people can give guidance/advice…

Trying to get my head around MQTT Brokers and how to integrate below, it has broken out devices integration…

I have had HA up and running for a bit successfully and have had devices such as Tasmota successfully connected etc… The MQTT on HA was setup to use core-mosquitto (assume local host) and all was working good.

I recently got Solar installed and I am using SolarAssistant software to integrate into HA. To set it up I had to setup a MQTT broker with bridge setup on HA and change it from “core-mosquitto” to the “ip of the solar assistant device”… The downside is that it has broked my tasmota controls… I was following the below…

https://solar-assistant.io/help/integration/mqtt

Ideally I want to have both and am trying to work out the best approach to getting both integrated? I have been reading on Brokers via Mosquitto MQTT Bridge-Usage and Configuration and still trying to get my head around the best path forward…

Thanks for all the help and input

https://solar-assistant.io/help/home-assistant/broker-setup

Did you follow that guide above? It reads quite well.


You need to make the conf file in the share/mosquito directory. That is where you inverter broker IP goes.

Open your Home Assistant instance and show the dashboard of a Supervisor add-on. << This will take you to file editor to do that.

Open your Home Assistant instance and show the dashboard of a Supervisor add-on. <<< This is where you need to set active: true to allow the conf file use.


MQTT configuration needs to go back to core-mosquitto

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I tried that but my tasmota still broke…

I tired again and went step by step and now looks to work (had reboot HA a few times)… Thnx again for the prompt to try that again…

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