I am new to Home Assistant, I used Homeseer for 15+ years and I want to migrate to HA now.
I want to install the mosquito broker and MQTT for zigbee2mqtt and I need to create a user entity for that according to the YouTube manuals I saw.
But when I go to ‘settings’ - ‘People’, I only have the option to add a person, I see no option to create a user. Also under settings - system, I don’t see an option to create a user for MQTT.
Probably a very noob question, but can anybody point me in the right direction?
Hi,
I assume that your MQTT devices require to set a user/password for communicating with the broker.
You may define a “person” in HA and call it for example mqtt. Your devices will then be able to communicate with HA. This works for me. Thee probably is a better way that avoids to explicitely set up a person for mqtt, but I didn’t bother to find out how
That prompted me to have another look at the MQTT integration - this time on my smartphone where I saw the “Login”. For some reason I was unable to locate it on the desktop.
@TFL999 , define MQTT login credentials in the settings and set the same info on your device. No need for an additional “person”
Apparantly there is an advanced-mode and a non-advance-mode for Home Assistant. When clicking on my name/login in the left-below corner there you can toggle advance mode on/off.
When this is enabled, you can create a user-account (non-people).
