[solved] Zigbee2MQTT - saving zigbee network

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Hi,
I have Zigbee2MQTT hassio addon installed on a Docker setup on a Pi. In the addon config, I’ve defined a directory in my home folder for “data_path”. Like this:

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But when I go to that folder after pairing a couple of devices, it’s an empty folder. I don’t see any errors in the Z2M addon. Am I incorrect in thinking that the zigbee network stuff is stored in that folder? I’d like to back it up, but it seems to be empty.

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I’m also kind of confused about the MQTT server designation. The Pi that this runs in has mosquitto installed (not using HA’s MQTT server), and the default

“server”: “mqtt://homeassistant”,

Seems to work and publish to this localhost mosquitto server just fine. What should be the configuration if I want a different LAN device to be MQTT server, let’s say<192.168.1.77:1883> without any need for passwords?

  "mqtt": {
    "base_topic": "zigbee2mqtt",
    "server": "192.168.1.77:1883",
    "user": "",
    "password": ""
  },

Is there some “global” MQTT server that HA instances know about? Is there a “//homeassistant” MQTT server configuration? I’m just wondering what the weird //homeassistant MQTT server is all about.

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not sure I follow. are you using hass.io or a different HA setup?
by default docker containers cannot access anything outside the container.
So you need to add a volume to your docker command that points /home/pi/docker/zigbee2mq to /app/data (which is where the config is saved on the docker container)
in your config file you would need to point to /app/data

for the 2nd part, I don’t know as I use MQTT with a username and password and never tried without.

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Thank you for the reminder. Yeah, hassio container is setup with a user data bind to my raspbian pi user folder, but you’re right, specifying </home/pi/docker/zigbee2mq> wouldn’t work, as it’s not bound. I don’t know where the addon is keeping the network data - maybe its inaccessible to me.

Thanks for the helpful reminder.

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