Hi
I just wanted to hear how your are setting up you owntracks configuration?
Are you port-forwarding both for HASS and MQTT to get OwnTracks to work from outside, or are you using a combination of CloudMQTT and a local MQTT server?
- Stefan
Hi
I just wanted to hear how your are setting up you owntracks configuration?
Are you port-forwarding both for HASS and MQTT to get OwnTracks to work from outside, or are you using a combination of CloudMQTT and a local MQTT server?
Hi Stefan,
I currently have 2 port forwards setup on my Gateway:
I’m not using MQTT cloud, since I want to keep all my home automation stuff/signals within my house.
I use cloudMQTT and I only have ports 80 and 8123 opened. But I think HA reaches out to cloudMQTT and picks up data so I don’t think any port forwarding is needed. I could be wrong there.
Do you setup some kind of security on the MQTT external port?
I just set up Owntracks and CloudMQTT with a local broker. I live behind a hardware firewall and only access HA from my VPN server but I did not have to punch any holes in the firewall or port forwardl to make the broker > cloudmqtt work. It just works.