Hello Erik. I received my unit about 2 months ago and finally had a chance to connect it up. I am getting these errors via MQTT.
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2025-06-28 16:35:50: New connection from 192.168.93.76:64575 on port 1883.
2025-06-28 16:35:50: Client SaltSentry disconnected, not authorised.
I am positive about the MQTT username and password as I can connect via MQTT Broker with the same credentials. I wonder about that ClientID “SaltSentry”. See below the configuration page. Any pointers?
Hi Marty,
It seems like something wend wrong, in the fields username, password and topic, you should see the actual values you filled in, so unless you changed them to take the screenshot, you might want to try to fill them in again.
If that does not work right away, you might to do a factory reset and then try again.
Thank you for the suggestions. I now have twice tried a factory reset without success. Meaning, I get back to the same situation. I am new to ESPHome. But is there a way to do a diagnostic at that level?
Hi Marty,
Thanks for the update.
Just to clarify: the Salt Sentry uses MQTT by default, as described in the manual: Salt Sentry Manual v1.1 (EN)
ESPHome is a different way to use the Salt sentry— that’s also a perfectly good option! But if you’re using ESPHome, the setup is entirely different and the manual doesn’t apply. You can use this ESPHome example config:
ESPHome.yaml
