I've been playing with it for quite some time. Things I love - Redis authentication, high degree of programmability, generally it's quite fast. I run it in a docker container. However, the upgrade from v4 to v5 didn't go well; I had to roll back (thank god for docker!). One other thing potentially of concern to some people - this software is Chinese. Not everyone's cup of tea.
One thing that is hard with Mosquito is subscribing to another broker like the one that runs in my Energy Bridge(reads my electric meter). You have to create a file and upload it to the correct directory with Mosquito. This might be a good alternative if it can do that easily.
Having just subscribed earlier today, I found your video about EMQX. I really like how you explain what you are talking about and in this case, how to install and configure the add-on . I'll give this a go. How long have you been using EMQX and do you find it stable?
I've been using it a month or more at the time of this comment. It has been reliable. Just turn off (or don't turn on) watchdog. That seems to restart it often for some reason.
I had some glitches on my HA and I moved my MQTT from Mosquitto to EMQX - much better overall experience now. Plus the possibility of deeper configuration of MQTT server - yeap, I will probably stay with EMQX. As we speak: EMQX shows 100 messages per second
Discord and I don't get along, so I will ask my question here. You mentioned Cluster and Failover. My Home Assistant is running on an Intel NUC i3 and my broker is on a separate Raspberry Pi3 running Mosquitto. I started using MQTT on Node-Red long before Home Assistant, and since the broker IP is hard-coded in my MQTT devices, it was just so much easier to keep the Raspberry Pi broker running. If I were to run EMQX, I would have to reprogram e few devices that aren't easily accessed. (Inside outlet boxes, etc). Would clustering/failover be a way to start using EMQX, turn off the Raspberry broker, then as access becomes an option reprogram the devices?
Thanks for nice guide. Did a quick test after watching, everything looks nice, but HAS didn’t see any devices, all offline. I think I need to so video again and read documentation.
First of all: very helpfull video howto setup the EMQX MQTT broker! I had problems with the mosquitto broker and hass.agent, No entities came into HA. So i switched to emqx and still none of the sensors i defined in hass.agent pops up (out of the box) into HA as an entity. I do have 3 433 entities in HA, but those have been defined as binary sensors before. Am i missing something, do i need to add other configuration? Quite lost where i go wrong....
I'm messing around with two HA instances and support the additional multi-cluster activation video. I installed EMQX in proxmox but it doesn't work :) maybe because I didn't spend enough time...
Hey Chris - I Followed your instructions - I am a Zigbee2MQTT user that wants to start using EMQX - but I'm having a hard time transitioning from Mosquitto to EMQX - is there another guide you can provide?
Will this work with frigate? I saw in another video you did in which I installed the MQTT broker you suggested. Sounds like I need to turn that off and install this one for better visibility, but don't want to break frigate.
What are the options for running EMQX as a stand-alone broker external to HA. I do that with mosquito because I have other appllications that use mqtt which have nothing to do with HA.
Just do it! You can run it all by itself. In Home Assistant, you need to point your MQTT integration to the IP of the EMQX location. Should work the same as using the add-on.
I want an HMI (MT8071ie) As publisher for mqtt or emqx, and an Hmi as subscribe, or a pc as subscribe or visualize data on dashboard, for remote login access? Please make a video or guide me
All my tasmotized plugs use a direct connection as well as my Zigbee2Mqtt add-on..and my frigate instance for alerts, etc. Ten is probably a small number compared to some on here.
Followed this and it worked, but I have 3 tasmota devices that keep losing connection, they never had problems with mosquito. When I enter password again they work until I reboot the HA system then they won't come back online.
Awesome tutorial, thanks for putting that up for us. One question someone here might be able to answer... How do I change the listener port of EMQX from :8083? I'm in the app add-on, listeners page, I click the 'ws' settings but I cannot edit the port. There is a crossed circle icon on the "bind" field. Want to change it as it conflicts with WebRTC.
For anyone else with the same question.... I disabled the existing listener and created a new one with the same settings. Restarted the add-on, seems to work.
Hi Chris You told in this video that you can set up 'multiple brokers' or something like that I've got 2 RPi's. One with Domoticz and Mosquitto-broker on it (192.168.192.234) , and one with Home Assistant and EMQX on it. (192.168.192.233) On the HA-RPi I want to listen to 192.168.192.233 port 1883 (which I achieved in this video) I've already some devices wich are connected to this broker. But on my Domoticz RPi I've also some devices which I want to control by Home Assistant. So EMQX should also listen to 192.168.192.234 I don't want to connect these MQTT-channels to one big channel. Because I don't want anything of these HA-rpi be sended to the Domoticz RPi. But HA must see and control the Domoticz-devices. I hope you understand what I mean. How must I setup EMQX to do this? Many thanks in advance. Helping me on TEAMVIEWER is also possible for me.
My broker for HA is actually a different computer, a Ubuntu server. Sounds like I have to install this on my Ubuntu machine or move my broker to HA? Too bad, looks like an awesome program, but can't use it right now.
You have to install it somewhere 😀 You can install it on HA and update your MQTT integration to use that--or--install it on Ubuntu and point the integration there. So you should be able to use it.
There is an option to stay logged in when you sign in. That should keep you signed in unless you are using a browser in private or incognito (or some other cache clearing thing).
Is this going to create duplicate or new devices/entities if I swap over from Mosquiiito? I have 172 existing mqtt entities and 29 device connected, all of them discovered. It would be a pain to have to edit and delete that many _2 entities.
Today I changed to emqx. It was pretty easy. I literally did nothing. Just stopped mosquitto Broker and started emqx. And all my 18 devices are shown in emqx and have the same entity. My username in mosquitto broker was „mqtt“. Dont now, if this makes any difference.
@@mostlychris Thanks Chris. I gave it a go. After a bit of messing about with Zigbee2Mqtt I nearly had everything working. However I use the mosquitto_pub CLI command (not service) and so this stopped working and I had to revert to using the Mosquitto add-on. Also I could not get MQTTExplorer to work for some reason.
Installed EMQX after watching this video. Really like the software, but I don't think it's stable... And currently early release to Home assistant, so finding help is difficult. Continually loosing connection, upon further inspection, I find this in my supervisor logs ever ~1 minute. "Watchdog found addon EMQX is unhealthy, restarting..."
I have the same problem, but can't findout why. I took off the watchdog, to prevent the rebooting. I also get a " 500 network error " when i try to go into the " Diagnose -> Topic Metrics " that i can't seem to fix. I hope somebody can help us out...
I tried this on my 12th gen i7 nuc running HA in a VM. HA will usually happily sit at around 4% cpu total for the whole installation (I only throw it 2 of the 16 available cores). I swap out mosquitto for emqx and it immediately goes to an average of 12% with constant spikes above 20 and 30%. Something a miss somewhere. I stopped it and switched everything back to mosquitto and its back to normal usage. Whilst even with emqx the host system itself is only increasing from 1% to 4%, I can run 4 vm’s on a third of the cpu emqx is taking alone? Strange.
@@mostlychris maybe it was something I set up strange (although it all appeared to be working). Or maybe why it is still in experimental status. I was surprised a mature installation of HA w/ mosquitto and everything else used half the cpu emqx seemed to want to use (excluding the constant spikes it also seemed to be causing). I did google around for other instances of high cpu being reported but didnt find much. I saw reference to some users saying with watchdog enabled it was causing the addon to be perpetually restarted (which may be why I saw high usage spikes), I had disabled and gone back to mosquitto when I read that though so couldn’t confirm. Although it doesnt explain the jump from 4 to 12% baseline cpu usage for HA as a whole unless emqx really is that heavy. Maybe I am just over sensitive, I am on a mission to reduce electricity consumption at the moment due to costs here, I value lightweight more than I ever have before.
Installed EMQX after watching this video. I really like the program, but I run on some troubles that i can't seem to get fixed... 1. Inside the application, when i try to go into the "Diagnose -> Topic Metrics" i get a "500 network error" message. 2. When i set "the watchdog" enabled on the add-on in Home Assistant, it keeps rebooting the add-on, because it keep showing up as "Unhealthy". The logs don't show anything strange. I can't find anything to fix these problems, so i really hope that somebody can help me out.
I think there are still a few bugs. I get a 404 on the metrics page after viewing the topics. The MQTT broker portion works without issue so these are UI issues. I also don't set the watchdog. I don't do that on any of my addons.
Works Great. One thing I cant get working is how to set up a bridge with this EMQ X. EMQ X - with Mosquitto broker , I added a file mosquitto.conf in /share/mosquitto, with the bridge settings. I Don;t see the option with the emq x for adding the bridge in a file.. So now i revert back to the standard broker as cant get bridges to work for topics in/out. created a file in etc\emqx.conf. i then see some topics but cant get it to work properly.
This is my server setting in zigbee2mqtt: mqtt://172.16.1.121:1883 Use the IP rather than localhost and see if that works. Also make sure your user/pass are correct in the settings.
