Hi,
i have 2 hassio installation: 1 for production and 1 for testing… I would like that the testing will access the production mqtt to get device data, but i don’t know how to set it up… i’ve installed the mosquitto broker addon but for what i’ve understand this will create a server in the testing machine… how can i access the production server?
thanx in advice,
Simply point your test configuration to the mqtt broker on your production server. I have both a production server and a test server, both point to the same mqtt broker.
i tryed, but I get these errors in the test machine:
2019-09-30 13:15:23 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.mqtt] Data in your config entry is going to override your configuration.yaml: {'broker': 'core-mosquitto', 'discovery': False, 'password': 'xxxx', 'port': 1883, 'protocol': '3.1.1', 'username': 'homeassistant'}
2019-09-30 13:15:24 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.mqtt] Failed to connect due to exception: [Errno 111] Connection refused
2019-09-30 13:15:24 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Config entry for mqtt not ready yet. Retrying in 5 seconds.
my configuration is simply:
mqtt:
broker: <production raspberry ip>
port: 1883
username: mqtt-user
password: <my password>
On my production server:
mqtt:
broker: 10.0.0.63
port: 1883
discovery: true
discovery_prefix: homeassistant
username: xxxx
password: xxxx
birth_message:
topic: 'hass/status'
payload: 'online'
will_message:
topic: 'hass/status'
payload: 'offline'
on my test server :
mqtt:
broker: 10.0.0.63
port: 1883
discovery: true
discovery_prefix: homeassistant
username: xxxx
password: xxxx
birth_message:
topic: 'hass/status'
payload: 'online'
will_message:
topic: 'hass/status'
payload: 'offline'
Both connect fine to the same mosquitto.
But I see in your error message
'broker': 'core-mosquitto'
you are using the built-in broker
how can I tell hassio to use the external MQTT ad avoid the message regarding the ‘broker’: ‘core-mosquitto’?
thanx
Are you sure you don’t use the built-in broker on your production server ?
mmm… no, not sure… i’m not so expert… but in the production server I have the “mosquitto broker” add-on installed with this config:
{
"logins": [
{
"username": "mqtt-user",
"password": "mypass"
}
],
"anonymous": false,
"customize": {
"active": false,
"folder": "mosquitto"
},
"certfile": "fullchain.pem",
"keyfile": "privkey.pem"
}
and no mqtt: entry in the config file… the strange thing is that in the production logs i have:
Data in your config entry is going to override your configuration.yaml: {'broker': 'core-mosquitto', 'discovery': True, 'password': 'mypass', 'port': 1883, 'protocol': '3.1.1', 'username': 'homeassistant'}
that makes me thing i’m maybe using the built-in?
You might check this out :
thanx a lot francisp you were right, i was using built in mqtt and to change, i’ve had to edit core.config_entries! I solved my problem and now i’ve learned better how mqtt works!
Is there a “built-in” mqtt broker in HASSIO? If so, is adding the configuration the only task to enable it?
Thanks!
The ‘built-in’ broker is deprecated, and will be removed in a few updates. So don’t try to use it, it will cause upgrade problems later.