Newbie need help with mqtt setup

Hi,

Trying to setup mqtt addon and extension, both of which installed. Also create a mqtt user in HA. Just little confused as how I proceed further. Do I configure from within the addon itself.

the link below is more about the extension, but I need to configure the username and password

strong text

so I can the configure

so you have added

Mosquitto broker

in the conf or that

logins:
  - username: mqttuser # does not have to be a HA user
    password: imnottellingyou
require_certificate: false
certfile: fullchain.pem
keyfile: privkey.pem
customize:
  active: false
  folder: mosquito

the username does not have to be a HA user

then the next install is “MQTT Explorer” this will let you see the traffic

then in your main conf

adding the !include_dir_merge_list will load all file in said folder

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thanks for the help - somehow I figured it out - only thing I am still questioning settings in the config file on the Pi

I been wanting to get stats on my Pi’s for long time without having to remote onto them so this one thing off my list of things to have in my HA.