If mosquitto is printing the local only message even though you have listener 1883 in your config file, check if mosquitto is using the correct config file. In my case, I mis-spelled the config file path (conf instead of config), hence mosquitto used the default config file, not my config file and therefore ignored all statements I put in my config file.
When mosquitto exits with code 13 such as a in a docker based setup, you will often see not error messsage:
Attaching to mosquitto_mosquitto_1 mosquitto_mosquitto_1 exited with code 13
However, there will be an error message in mosquitto.log. So, ensure that you have configured a log_dest file in your mosquitto.conf such as:
log_dest file /mosquitto/log/mosquitto.log
and check that file. In my case it showed these error messages:
1637860284: mosquitto version 2.0.14 starting 1637860284: Config loaded from /mosquitto/config/mosquitto.conf. 1637860284: Error: Unable to open pwfile "/mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd". 1637860284: Error opening password file "/mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd".
In my case, the path of the password file was mis-spelled (conf instead of config)
Note that you need to create the password file in order for mosquitto to start up!
See How to setup standalone mosquitto MQTT broker using docker-compose for example commands on how to create the user and the password file
When starting Mosquitto using a default configuration file, you will see log message like
mosquitto_1 | 1637858580: Starting in local only mode. Connections will only be possible from clients running on this machine.
indicating that the mosquitto MQTT broker is only listening on 127.0.0.1 and is not reachable over the network.
In order to fix this, you can simply bind to all IP addresses using
bind_address 0.0.0.0 listener 1883
in mosquitto.conf
mosquitto.conf examplepersistence true persistence_location /mosquitto/data/ log_dest file /mosquitto/log/mosquitto.log listener 1883 ## Authentication ## allow_anonymous false password_file /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.conf
See our previous post on How to setup standalone mosquitto MQTT broker using docker-compose for further details on how to setup a mosquitto MQTT broker using this config.
If mosquitto is still printing the local only message even though you have listener 1883 in your config file, check if mosquitto is using the correct config file. In my case, I mis-spelled the config file path (conf instead of config), hence mosquitto used the default config file, not my config file and therefore ignored all statements I put in my config file.
docker-compose.ymlversion: "3"
services:
mosquitto:
image: eclipse-mosquitto
network_mode: host
volumes:
- ./conf:/mosquitto/conf
- ./data:/mosquitto/data
- ./log:/mosquitto/log
Now create conf/mosquitto.conf
persistence true persistence_location /mosquitto/data/ log_dest file /mosquitto/log/mosquitto.log listener 1883 ## Authentication ## # allow_anonymous false password_file /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.conf
Now create the first user using
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd -c /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd mosquitto
You can optionally create more users using the -b (batch) flag instead of -c , supplying the password on the command line:
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd -b /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd seconduser shoaCh3ohnokeathal6eeH2marei2o
Now start mosquitto using
docker-compose up
or create a systemd service to autostart it.
We are running mosquitto using network_mode: host. Mosquitto will, by default, listen on port 1883 (MQTT). You can configure more services using conf/mosquitto.conf, see this StackOverflow post for more info.
The following setting in configuration.yml connects to a local mosquitto MQTT broker using username and password:
mqtt: broker: "127.0.0.1" username: "homeassistant" password: "iraughij3Phoh7ne9Aoxingi2eimoo"
configuration.yml:default_config: http: use_x_forwarded_for: true trusted_proxies: - 127.0.0.1 ip_ban_enabled: true login_attempts_threshold: 5 mqtt: broker: "127.0.0.1" username: "homeassistant" password: "iraughij3Phoh7ne9Aoxingi2eimoo" # Text to speech tts: - platform: google_translate group: !include groups.yaml automation: !include automations.yaml script: !include scripts.yaml scene: !include scenes.yaml
When running mosquitto_passwd like this:
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd myuser
or with the -c parameter:
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd -c /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd myuser
the user is created but all other users who where previously listed in the file are deleted.
Create the first user using the -c flag in order to create the file if it does not exist
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd -c /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd firstuser
Then create additional users using -b (batch mode),which allows you to specify the password on the command line:
docker-compose exec mosquitto mosquitto_passwd -b /mosquitto/conf/mosquitto.passwd seconduser shoaCh3ohnokeathal6eeH2marei2o
When using -b, old users will not be deleted.