Mosquitto MQTT Broker - Explanation and Setup

Home Automation is a great way to add some quality of life features to your home. In this video I explain the basics of what MQTT is, and how to deploy a broker in Docker with Mosquitto.

Deconz Docker Compose:

Hardware:
Conbee III:
Conbee II:
Hue Lights:
Sonoff:

00:00 - Introduction to MQTT & Mosquitto
03:50 - Docker Compose and Config File
10:40 - Checking Logs For Deployment
11:09 - Creating a User
13:10 - Outro

[helioradial]

I think you just have you just aligned with exactly what I was looking for. To understand mqtt lol. As always thank you for the fantastic content.

[manjanjatx]

Holy hell, I LITERALLY set up MQTT ~3 days ago. It was a pain as I mostly have experience with Zigbee devices via ZHA in Home Assistant, so I had to set up Mosquitto for the first time for some new devices running Tasmota. Spent way too long on the project (mostly because I didn't realize that my router was blocking all traffic between VLANs, so the messages between the IOT devices and my MQTT VM only worked one way). Should've just waited for your video to come out. (And I'm also excited to get back on track with your k3s video series, but setting it up w/ Ansible instead of the custom shell scripts from the older vidoes.) Cheers!

[IgnoreMyChan]

12:29 No, that's not base64, that's a proper `crypt` salted password hash.

[SB-qmwg]

I had to support RabbitMQ at my last gig. The queue backed up all the time.

[FilipeNeto]

why not root the traffic through traefik?

[congenio]

You actually do not need to spin up a docker MQTT broker if you want to use it for Home Assistant, as there is an add-on for it available.

[evilsun]

Are you still available for questions about Mosquitto?