jimford
(Jim Ford)
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I’ve got MQTT installed and Mosquitto Broker, but if I fill in ‘mosquitto’ in the MQTT configuration it’s not recognised.
I’d be grateful for some help, please!
Jim
(I had a HA installation a few years ago, but configuration of some integrations in the latest incarnation seems more trickiy!)
steev
(Steven Davies)
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You need to put the hostname/IP address of the computer running Moquitto in the MQTT configuration.
avd706
(Avd706)
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Isn’t it core-mosquitto ?
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it’s safer, and doesn’t rely on DNS / mDNS working properly - to just use localhost
if it’s running on the same machine.
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A few ideas to try:
If this helps,
this post!
jimford
(Jim Ford)
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localhost did it (why isn’t it in the docs?)
Thanks “Ander Jones” and others who made suggestions.
Jim
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