Cannot get smartthings_mqtt_bridge server to run

Configuration
1

I’m trying to mqtt bridge setup, but I cant seem to get the smartthings mqtt bridge server to run. For my output, it only goes so far as to say Connecting to and it hangs

homeassistant@raspberrypi:~/.homeassistant $ smartthings-mqtt-bridge
info: Starting SmartThings MQTT Bridge - v2.0.0
info: Loading configuration
info: Loading previous state
info: Perfoming configuration migration
info: Saving current state
info: Connecting to MQTT at 192.168.86.20:8080

Here is my config.yml:
mqtt:
host: 192.168.86.20:8080
preface: smartthings
username: homeassistant
password: xxxxxxx

Port number to listen on

port: 8080

Any help would be appreciated

2

I’m running v1.4.0 so may be different now, but I don’t think 8080 goes with the
mqtt host address, so try

host: 192.168.86.20

3

That’s for the reply, but that didn’t work either. What username/password are you using? I’m wondering if that’s my problem.

4

That would be the username and password that was configured for your mqtt broker.
If you use mosquitto, use (fill in BROKERNAME with the one you want):

sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/pwfile BROKERUSERNAME

and this prompts for a password.

5

I’ve been seeing “mosquito” in a lot of posts. Pardon my ignorance, but what is mosquito? Should I be using it? I’ve only got about 3 days experience with Raspbian.

6

mosquitto is an implementation of a MQTT Broker.
If you don’t have an MQTT Broker, you will need to set one up.

7

So “smartthings-mqtt-bridge” is not a a broker? Sounds like you found my problem.