How send data from home assistant to MQTT?

[Mogwaika]

Hi.

1. How can I send collected sensors data to MQTT broker (for example Xiaomi sensors)?
2. How to resend data collected from local MQTT broker to global internet broker (for example narodmon.ru)
   Thanks in advance for help!

[RobDYI]

take a look here

How to do automation: publish mqtt message on shutdown / disconnect / restart

Mqtt configuration: mqtt: broker: ip birth_message: topic: 'service/irbridge1/service/connection' payload: '1' retain: True will_message: topic: 'service/irbridge1/service/connection' payload: '0' retain: True I notices on restart or shutdown it does not update with the will_message, so i tried this: - id: mqtt_on_exit trigger: platform: event event_type: homeassistant_stop action: service: mqtt.publish data: topic: 'serv…

[gpbenton (Graham)]

The documentation for the MQTT publish service is here

MQTT Publish service

[Mogwaika]

The documentation for the MQTT publish service is here

How to configure it to use two mqtt brokers?

[gpbenton (Graham)]

I don’t think connecting to two brokers is possible. You can however, bridge brokers together - see

MQTT: Working Mosquitto / CloudMQTT Bridge

For anyone that’s interested this is what I did after following Bruh’s’s excellent Owntracks / CloudMQTT guide to get my local Mosquitto instance talking to CloudMQTT. Create a new mosquitto config in the /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/ directory, I used cloudmqtt.conf (it can be any name as long as it ends with .conf so mosquitto will read it) with the following info… connection cloudmqtt address <Instance Server>:<Instance Port> remote_username <Instance User> remote_password <Instance Password> clie…