Hi
Long time reader, first time poster.
I have a setup where a python program running on an RPI sends around 30 messages (QOS 0, Retain false) to a Mosquito MQTT at set intervals of 15 minutes. MQTT is running as an addon to Homeassistant which is itself running on a separate RPI. This setup worked very well for about 10 days after which point I decided to snapshot migrate the Homeassistant RPI from SD Card to SSD retaining all the IP addresses I had before. After migration I noticed that the message throughput was intermittent to the point were the messages were only getting through about 1/6 of the time. When I tried using MQTT Explorer I could see that I could connect but all I saw was the IP address of the server in the display window eg no topics or messages were displayed including $SYS topics.
The configuration of MQTT was standard (no config changes made by me) and there was nothing I could see in the MQTT logs that would indicate an error. Indeed, the logs confirmed that a connection from a new client (Both my python script and MQTT Explorer) had been successfully made.
Testing from Homeassistant MQTT UI allowed both publishing and subscription .
After much rooting about I added a user to the MQTT config and this seems to have cured my problem for now.
certfile: fullchain.pem
customize:
active: false
folder: mosquitto
keyfile: privkey.pem
logins:
- username: mqtt
password: mqtt
require_certificate: false
I am new to Mosquito and MQTT so I am not sure whether this is an issue on my config/understanding or a quirk of my storage migration.
Mosquito MQTT : 6.0.1
Home Assistant : core-2022.4.7
Supervisor: supervisor-2022.04.0
Cheers
Clive