How to change log time format Mosquitto broker?

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 6:04am

I am unable to find information/documentation on how to change log time format for the Mosquitto Add-in. This is how it looks like for me:

This is my settings:

I guess there is a mix in the current time format(s), epoch time + human readable? Where is the settings for human readable only?

Mosquitto version: 5.1.1

tom_l · April 16, 2021, 6:24am

There is no setting for this that I know of. You could add a feature request for it.

nickrout · April 16, 2021, 6:39am

in ssh

docker logs addon_core_mosquitto|perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 7:12am

I am running my Home Assistant under Home Assistant Operating System. Is it the same command here as well?

tom_l · April 16, 2021, 7:18am

Install the Portainer addon and use it’s bash shell for the Mosquitto container?

You will have to do this after every update. Better to request it get fixed in the addon.

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 7:26am

Great suggestion! Unfortunately I am not very familiar with Docker/Portainer yet and therefore a bit afraid of messing things up with my Home Assistant installation doing things I am not 100% sure of. I will go for the request!

Thanks for great help @nickrout and @tom_l !

nickrout · April 16, 2021, 7:57am

you can’t ruin anything with my suggestion, but it as a little inconvenient.

nickrout · April 16, 2021, 7:58am

yes that is the place to type it.

Wilber · April 16, 2021, 11:11am

Have a look at this thread How to modify mosquitto.conf? - #4 by 123 - particularly the last post. I think this is how I permanently changed the log file date format for mosquitto - though it was a while ago, so I hope things haven’t changed.

Hope this helps.

tom_l · April 16, 2021, 11:28am

That worked perfectly. Thanks!

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 12:24pm

Unfortunately that didn’t help me.

I created the file /share/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf and put the configuration content in it (from your linked post). After that, I restarted the Mosquitto Add-in.

Here is the log output:

I’m absolutely not an expert, but my Add-in seemed to expect another config, /etc/mosquitto.conf ?

The strange thing is that when I tried to reach that file from VS Code Add-in, /etc/mosquitto.conf wasn’t there. I guess there is something I do not fully understand here?

tom_l · April 16, 2021, 12:57pm

I followed the instructions in the last post in that topic. I put the file here:

/share/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 1:01pm

I did the same as you, but my outcome seems to be different (I followed the instructions in the last post as well). Strange

tom_l · April 16, 2021, 1:04pm

Make sure the mosquitto.conf file is in unix format (Lf EOL not CrLf EOL).

Also check your addon log:

HaunsTM · April 16, 2021, 1:40pm

I abandoned the VS Code Add-on and used nano in the Terminal SSH Add-on.

I am in the folder /share/mosquitto:

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I verify the content in mosquitto.conf by typing nano mosquitto.conf:

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I restart the Mosquitto Add-on:

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This is the result

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