I have a mosquito broker installed on another machine (separate from HA). My IOT devices can connect to the broker as can my HA instance. I can see messages to/from the broker from IOT or HA publish. However, HA will NOT discover add my devices (in this case, Tasmota fans). I realize I can use the Tasmota integration, but need MQTT set up for other things (Ring Alarm).
I have the HA integration set to auto-discovery. Any ideas why HA won’t discover and add devices? Do I need to add additional yaml?
The Tasmota Integration still uses MQTT, so you could point your ring stuff to those topics.
If you are not using the Tasmota Integration then you need to manually add stuff so that the stuff Tasmota published also shows in the required topics that HA is looking for in order to discover.
What was confusing me, was the MQTT integration doesn’t show any entities, but after I pointed my Tasmoras the broker the tasmota integration found them. I was just confused thinking that MQTT wasn’t working because the integration itself did not show any entities.