Started over with my Home Assistant. How do I transfer over my MQTT devices?

It’s been a long time since I setup my Home Assistant. I’ve been having trouble with it and started up a new Home Assistant OS virtual machine.

The main thing I’m having trouble is with bringing in my previous MQTT devices (mainly a number of smart switches around the house). I don’t remember the proper setup process for this…

I’ve downloaded the Mosquitto Broker add-on, and then I installed the MQTT integration. It’s not recognizing my devices though. I can boot up the old Home Assistant VM and all the devices are there and working correctly, I’m just not sure how to transfer these devices to the new Home Assistant OS VM.

Any advice, please?

You need to edit the config on each device to point it to your new mqtt server.

And it should just be the ip address I need to change, right? I tried that for one of the devices and it still wasn’t being recognized by Home Assistant. Do I need to do anything else in Home Assistant for it to try and discover MQTT devices again?

Sounds like esp based stuff? Might be a good time to ditch (the over 20 year old) MQTT :wink:

Stuff like esphome with it’s native api and central management (dashboard) is a ease once you took the steep start :rocket:

@orange-assistant

Some info:

The smart switches that I have are some BN-Link branded switches. Here is a link straight to the item: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CVPKD8Z/?tag=blakaddertemp-20

When I go to the web page for my Tasmota devices, I see this information:

The devices are on version "8.1.0.2(tasmota) "

The device type is BNC-60/U133TJ Module.

I went to the ESP site and didn’t see it in their list of devices. Is that still an option? I haven’t used ESPHome before, but if I could use a tool that is more tied into HA directly, I’d like to switch. Tasmota has been great and reliable, but I don’t like that I need to have a separate broker going.

And possibly user/pw