MQTT Woes

garmcqui · April 2021

Hi all,

I am trying to set up MQTT access for my Glow CAD and pull it into Home Assistant (HassOS, rather than HASSIO etc). Hildebrand have kindly switched on MQTT for me. I have followed the guides and thought I had the config correct, but any HA sensor I create using the data is simply displaying "unknown".

My Mosquitto config looks like this:

logins:

username: XXXX

password: XXXXX

anonymous: false

customize:

active: true

folder: mosquitto

certfile: server.crt

keyfile: server.key

require_certificate: true

and my glow.conf file (which is in \share\mosquitto\ as it is HassOS) looks like this:

connection glowmqtt

address glowmqtt.energyhive.com:8883

topic SMART/HILD/XXXXXX in 0

try_private false

notifications true

start_type automatic

remote_clientid unique cliend id

remote_username mybrightemail

remote_password brightpassword

keepalive_interval 300

cleansession true

bridge_cafile /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

In my mosquitto log I have:

1618579742: Loading config file /share/mosquitto/glow.conf

1618579742: mosquitto version 1.6.3 starting

1618579742: Config loaded from /etc/mosquitto.conf.

1618579742: Loading plugin: /usr/share/mosquitto/auth-plug.so

1618579742: |-- *** auth-plug: startup

1618579742: ├── Username/password checking enabled.

1618579742: ├── TLS-PSK checking enabled.

1618579742: └── Extended authentication not enabled.

1618579742: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 1883.

1618579742: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 1883.

1618579742: Opening websockets listen socket on port 1884.

1618579742: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 8883.

1618579742: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 8883.

1618579742: Opening websockets listen socket on port 8884.

1618579742: Warning: Mosquitto should not be run as root/administrator.

1618579742: Connecting bridge glowmqtt (glowmqtt.energyhive.com:8883)

So the last line here looks like Mosquitto is connecting to glowmqtt. But what am I doing wrong?

Any help appreciated!

Dougie · April 2021

This is a redacted version of what I've got in my Mosquitto bridge (in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/glowmarkt.conf)

connection glowmqtt
address glowmqtt.energyhive.com:8883
try_private false
notifications true
start_type automatic
keepalive_interval 300
cleansession true
bridge_protocol_version mqttv311
remote_username example@gmail.com
remote_password myAPisecret
topic SMART/HILD/AABBCCDDEEFF in 0
bridge_capath /etc/ssl/certs
local_clientid raspi_mosq
remote_clientid raspi_glow

That republishes every JSON message that comes in on SMART/HILD/AABBCCDDEEFF.

clivee · May 2021

please test with a command line client like mosquito_sub

I have just tested your feed and it is fine

mosquitto_sub -d -v -h glowmqtt.energyhive.com -u $brightuser -P $brightpass -t "SMART/HILD/$yourmac"

make sure you are using your correct bright credentials

MQTT Woes

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