Problems with MQTT lights after converting to HASS.io

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi everybody,
I have been running Hassbian for a while and decided to switch to Hass.io to see what the fuss is about :slight_smile: Everything went smooth but I simply cannot get my MQTT lights up and running :frowning:
I can see the following error in the logs:
Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py”, line 258, in _async_add_entity
await entity.async_added_to_hass()
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/light/mqtt_json.py”, line 245, in async_added_to_hass
self._qos)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/init.py”, line 241, in async_subscribe
topic, msg_callback, qos, encoding)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/init.py”, line 559, in async_subscribe
await self._async_perform_subscription(topic, qos)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/init.py”, line 594, in _async_perform_subscription
_raise_on_error(result)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/mqtt/init.py”, line 680, in _raise_on_error
‘Error talking to MQTT: {}’.format(mqtt.error_string(result_code)))
homeassistant.exceptions.HomeAssistantError: Error talking to MQTT: The client is not currently connected.

Some snips from my config:
mqtt:
broker: 192.168.1.80
port: 1883
keepalive: 60
username: xxxxx
password: xxxxx

light:

  • platform: mqtt_json
    name: Cabinet
    state_topic: “home/rgbw1”
    command_topic: “home/rgbw1/set”
    brightness: true
    rgb: true
    white_value: true
    effect: true
    effect_list: [colorfade_slow, colorfade_fast, flash]
    optimistic: false
    qos: 0
    (Sorry if spaces doesnt match)

My Mosquitto broker (installed via Hass.io)
{
“plain”: true,
“ssl”: false,
“anonymous”: true,
“logins”: [
{
“username”: “xxxxxxx”,
“password”: “xxxxxxxx”
}
],
“customize”: {
“active”: false,
“folder”: “mosquitto”
},
“certfile”: “fullchain.pem”,
“keyfile”: “privkey.pem”
}

I hope somebody can help me and make my sunday! :slight_smile:
BR,
Lars
PS running HA 66.1

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I am having the exact same problem - switching from a Pi3 to WSL.

I have tested the mosquitto server as much as I can, I can send remote messages to it and see them via:
mosquitto_sub -h 127.0.0.1 -v -t “home-assistant/#”

But they are not making it to HASS. Also tried my local IP address. Tried from the same machine and another machine to rule out firewall issues…

3

Argh! Somehow my automations were just turned off for the events. I didn’t have my automations showing on the homescreen so didn’t notice. Well that was a fun two hours :smiley:

4

I still have the problem :frowning: