I am a newbie to HA and I am configuring the HA Green device. I installed the Mosquitto broker add-on from the store. However, it is failing to discover any devices. I expected it to auto discover the Ring Alarm. What am I missing?
Here’s the mosquitto broker log:
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner: starting
s6-rc: info: service s6rc-oneshot-runner successfully started
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs: starting
s6-rc: info: service fix-attrs successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init: starting
cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/mosquitto.sh
[11:21:24] INFO: e[32mSSL is not enablede[0m
cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/mosquitto.sh exited 0
cont-init: info: running /etc/cont-init.d/nginx.sh
cont-init: info: /etc/cont-init.d/nginx.sh exited 0
s6-rc: info: service legacy-cont-init successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
services-up: info: copying legacy longrun mosquitto (no readiness notification)
services-up: info: copying legacy longrun nginx (no readiness notification)
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started
[11:21:26] INFO: e[32mStarting NGINX for authentication handling…e[0m
[11:21:27] INFO: e[32mStarting mosquitto MQTT broker…e[0m
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: mosquitto version 2.0.22 starting
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Loading plugin: /usr/share/mosquitto/go-auth.so
2025-11-20 11:21:27: ├── Username/password checking enabled.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: ├── TLS-PSK checking enabled.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: └── Extended authentication not enabled.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Opening websockets listen socket on port 1884.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: mosquitto version 2.0.22 running
2025-11-20 11:21:27: New connection from ::1:58796 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:21:27: Client disconnected due to protocol error.
[11:21:30] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully send discovery information to Home Assistant.e[0m
[11:21:32] INFO: e[32mSuccessfully send service information to the Supervisor.e[0m
2025-11-20 11:21:34: New connection from 172.30.32.1:43155 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:21:34: New client connected from 172.30.32.1:43155 as 7ewYVCp70VpjJRficRdLyZ (p2, c1, k60, u’homeassistant’).
2025-11-20 11:22:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:39548 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:22:10: Client closed its connection.
2025-11-20 11:24:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:43734 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:24:10: Client closed its connection.
2025-11-20 11:26:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:48834 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:26:10: Client closed its connection.
2025-11-20 11:28:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:50208 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:28:10: Client closed its connection.
2025-11-20 11:30:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:59518 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:30:10: Client closed its connection.
2025-11-20 11:32:10: New connection from 172.30.32.2:42640 on port 1883.
2025-11-20 11:32:10: Client closed its connection.
The system log has a warning:
Logger: homeassistant.components.mqtt.client
Source: components/mqtt/client.py:1229
integration: MQTT (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 10:47:54 AM (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 11:21:14 AM
- Error returned from MQTT server: The connection was refused.
- Error returned from MQTT server: The connection was lost.