Connecting to two MQTT brokers

[danielcoon82 (Dan Coon)]

I have just bought some smart plugs from local bytes that use tasmota. I followed the instructions up until the point it says to install MQTT then I hit a wall as I already connect to a broker on our HiSense TV. I can’t find a way to add a second broker. Can somebody help me please?

Many Thanks

[sheminasalam]

Hi there, I believe you are using mosquito mqtt in HA. In that case you can inter-connect with Hisence mqtt broker with the process known as bridging. Please see the below for details.

Mosquitto MQTT Bridge-Usage and Configuration

You will have to change the configuration in addon and also create a file with the relevant bridge setting. Please see the below guide.

Instruction manual. Configuring the MQTT bridge on the Mosquito broker addon

Example of configuring the MQTT bridge with the Mosquito broker add-on version 6.0.1. The bridge needs to be deployed on one machine that will send and receive messages, and on the other machine we will allow access for the first machine. And so. it is done as follows. 1) Settings of the Mosquitto broker addon on the first machine with Home Assistant On the first machine, in the share folder, we create a mosquito folder and create a mosquito.conf file inside. In this file, we insert the code …