MQTT settings for Meshtastic node including the hard to find ones.

MQTT stands for Message Queuing Telemetry Transport and it's a great way to be able to see Meshtastic traffic if you can't link to any other nodes via the 868MHz LoRa radio mesh. Be careful how you use it however, as you can flood the radio network with traffic which could cause it to become saturated. Recommendation is to turn off MQTT to prevent this.

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[DeanTurner]

Uplink/downlink setting is in the channels tab on phone app. You can enable or disable for each channel you have setup. Please people don't use mqtt on public channels.

[markwilliams]

Nice clear information I got mine working today

[Timo_Titanium]

You make the best Meshtastic videos between Munich and Brighton! Thank You! Timo, DB1TK

[breadsticks]

Well Simon it's nice to see you go from a couple 100 views to 5k+ views not to mention the subscribers! Safe to say you'll be making some nice money off youtube very soon! Keep it up

[GHCB]

Please to those watching. if you have local RF contacts don't switch this on as it will flood and stop people doing real rf only meshtastic networking.

[martin]

Great video and clearly explained suppose good for people with no RF activity in the area .Can you do a video on remote access to a node via port forwarding please .most secure way possible Simon .thanks for the videos ❤️

[jacko]

Good that you did testing with the dummy load, because enabling MQTT is bad as you'll flood the mesh with broadcasts slowing it down for everyone.

[KH]

For iPhone hold the primary channel until a pop up appears and you will have up and down links there.

[tchesnokovn]

No need to go via PC. Go to Channels and enable Up/downlink in the channel of choice (Long Fast)

[IndependentNewsMedia]

This function on the app is on Channels module, if click on '0 Longfast', a new window appears with up/down link enable. God bless.

[Mike-H_UK]

On my iPhone, I found the controls for uplink/downlink on the phone menu at radio configuration > channel. I also found it necessary to set the Root Topic to msh/EU_898 which wasn't the default for me. I have seen your nodename on MQTT and wondered if it were you... I'll try and send you a message.

[kai_jokela]

How to choose who's messages are relayed from internet? I only want to see MQTT messages from my friends.

[AllenIsbell]

On the phone click the channel name show uplink and downlink settings

[apted]

Great video, thanks for clarifying a few points. I’m looking to setup MQTT for a local MQTT server so I can monitor Meshtastic over the local network and use within Home Assistant. I’m following the official docs but does anyone have any experience of implementing this?

[iaincampbell]

My understanding is that this frequency range isnt restricted to licensed amateurs, so im assuming enceyption is ok. If you use the 433mhz version you can only use that by virtue of your license and you then need to enable amateur mode disavle encryption? My understanding was being licensed gives you additional privileges over joe public but these come with rules...but it doesnt take away what you could do beforehand. So if it's legal for an unlicensed individual it is also legal for you?

[MONTY-YTNOM]

and how do you get that page you show on the laptop ?

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[OH-cjif]

I can't get mine to connect to my home network via my WiFi router.
I thought I would have been able to do this and then connect in to my network via WiFi from the Meshtastic App.
Bluetooth isn't good enough here.