MQTT setup

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Hi guys,

I currently have HA running on a windows pc with virtual box and its going great. I also have mosquitto MQTT running within HA. Recently my system crashed and my tasmota light switches were very sluggish when pressing the actual light switch buttons. This was because they couldnt connect to MQTT and were continually trying. As far as I can make out there is no way to stop this happening if MQTT goes down (was hoping there was an option for tasmota that stopped looking after so long). This got me looking at running an MQTT on a pi instead. I already have an MQTT running on a pi from another project. From reading about HA, to get it to use this pi MQTT all I have to do is go in to the configuration and add:
mqtt:
broker: CLOUDMQTT_SERVER
port: CLOUDMQTT_PORT
username: CLOUDMQTT_USER
password: CLOUDMQTT_PASSWORD

obviously I need to add my own details. It should then be a case of disabling the mosquitto HA MQTT and all should be good after changing all my tasmota devices to look at the correct ip. IS this correct? I am a little reluctant to just do it in case I completely screw it up so just wanting a sanity check on what I am saying.

Thanks

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This should work :


mqtt:
  broker: 10.0.0.63
  port: 1883
  discovery: true
  discovery_prefix: homeassistant
  username: xxx
  password: xxx
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