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Is it possible to use an external mosquitto installation with home assistant, or do I need to run the official add on? I have a docker container running with mosquitto already, and it seems it should be possible to point HA at it directly?
Alternatively, if I have mosquitto running inside home assistant as an add in, can I use it as a broker for external applications as well?
The docker installation is running on the same raspberry pi as home assistant.

Thanks!

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Install the MQTT integration and point it to your running, external Mosquitto instance.

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Thank you - that was a quick response!

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So if you point the HASS MQTT integration to an external MQTT Broker the HASS one will not act a a broker itself? If you leave it configured as “core-mosquitto” it will be configured as a Broker?

Just trying to wrap my head around this. I would also like to user an external broker instead of the HASS one so that I can share it among other devices as well.

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I am sorry, but I use Home Assistant Container, not Home Assistant OS. So there is not MQTT “add-on” for me.