Home Assistant MQTT Install and Setup - A Beginner's Guide

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MQTT and Home Assistant are extremely powerful when paired together and can be used on a wide range of applications, but what is MQTT and how does it work? How do we add it to our Home Assistant Installation? In this video I will show you how to install the Mosquitto Broker add-on in Home Assistant and install the MQTT integration so that you can be up and running with MQTT very quickly! We also discuss a MQTT topics, QoS (Quality of Service) and how to publish and subscribe as well as how to configure a Shelly smart home device with MQTT.
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@fergazoid Год назад

NOTE that the Home Assistant menus have changed since this video. The "Supervisor store" is now in "Add-ons" from the "Settings" menu. Adding a user is trickier as it is now a tab on the "People" page from the "Settings" menu. BUT... you must first enable "Advanced Mode" on your profile, opened by clicking your name in the lower left corner. All this took quiet a while to wade thru and figure out!!

@saiverx Год назад

There is no addon category in the settings menu Edit: You need to set up hass with supervised mode initially to have the option. Scroll to the bottom of the installation docs to see how.

@fergazoid Год назад

@@saiverx That might be a menu item requiring 'Advanced Mode' be set in your profile, which in turn requires you to be an 'admin'.

@saiverx Год назад

@@fergazoid I spent some time reading, since I setup hass as a docker container it doesn't include the Supervised version. You need Debian to setup hass with supervised, I'm on Ubuntu 🤦🏼‍♂️ But I figured it out 👍

@gravidar Год назад

Please pin this comment - or do another video, prior, I was creating a person that could log in but this is not the same as a user which you can only do with advanced options on!

@nicolasraby2967 3 года назад

This man is reading my mind on what I want to see.

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

🔮🧙

@OpenEmoto 3 года назад

I spent many hours trying to understand the different authentication options and you got it clear in 6 seconds. Your video is straight to the point. Thanks!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

That's awesome, thanks for the comment!

@rodolfofuentes3497 11 месяцев назад

First video of yours I've seen. Well done. Your instructions were clear and specific. Thank you

@pizza88 2 года назад

Finally I can understand what is MQTT when you show the listen to a topic concept, you are one of the best Home Assistant youtuber! :)

@rabidbunny3025 2 года назад

Thank you! Your videos are excellent and precise and clear. I've been learning a lot from your videos. I've been able to setup MQTT, and even secure it using TLS, and having disabled non-encrypted traffic, however I'd highly value a tech Tuesday video on how to setup/flash the devices with tasmota to allow TLS from the start (without having to revert back to unsecured port 1883). I've also got proper SSL and one url already configured for the Home Assistant as well. Thanks!

@b16crxt 2 года назад

Finally got my Tasmotized Sonoff S31 plugs to show up in my device list with your help here. Thank you!

@kashem425 2 года назад

Thank you so much! I was stuck on 6:58 and most videos just gloss over this section. Finally working, thank you!

@knightyyz 2 года назад

Thak you for this. I've watched quite a few videos on this subject and they seem to miss step or two. I finally can use MQTT

@aaronBni 3 года назад

outstanding video, clear, concise, working example and from my experience you even offer support when asked questions! you should be one of the top smart home youtubers! cant wait until everyone realises how much better you are than most the others out there

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks Aaron, appreciate the support! Don't know about best but doing my best for sure! Thanks again friend 🙏

@MrTohtoriR 3 года назад

Excelent! Password concept in HA also well explained. This has been lacking in the other videos.

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏

@groguk8470 2 года назад

Great video, came complete sense and even thought the version was slightly different, i managed to get everything up and running and felt like a wizard afterwards.

@JesseG2573 3 года назад

Once again, another great tutorial. I've always looked at MQTT but was somewhat intimidated... Not anymore. Thanks to you! Bravo!!!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks Jesse for the support as always, glad it could help!

@solodev5739 3 года назад

I am SO grateful I found this. There's a lot of videos but this seriously got me through some serious roadblocks I've been dealing with for days. Huge thanks

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

That's awesome Alex! Glad I could help!

@AwesomeOpenSource 3 года назад

Excellent, as always!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks buddy!

@Kunfury Год назад

Incredible video, In all of your videos you have a perfect way of describing things that make them just click in my head! Sincerely, thank you so much for all the work you do in these videos!

@r.zimmerli 2 года назад

The video helped me to unterstand the fundamentals of MQTT and how to setup in Home Assistant. Excellent video!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Awesome, glad it was useful!

@ewademail 3 года назад

thanks man! i've spent hours trying to get MQTT set up. i swear other videos said to put the devices ip in the host field on the devices mqtt configuration. YOU ROCK

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks Ethan!

@clairerovic 2 года назад

Amazing, rebuilding system and forgot some of the subtle issues. Came back to this video and problem gone Thanks 👍

@fearthesmeag 8 месяцев назад

Thanks Lewis - this helped for the HASS client install as my MQTT was not correctly installed via another YT vid!

@M1L31 2 года назад

oh damn! it can be so easy! thanks for the easy setup! was trying over 2 days now ....... with your guide 5 min

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

My man 🙌

@simoneatough6391 3 года назад

Thank you. I've always found mqtt as a bit of a dark art, and have generally avoided products and projects that use it. Will def have another look now

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks for the comment Simon, hopefully this gets you a bit closer, MQTT is really powerful and not scary once you get started! Let me know how it goes!

@timffoster Год назад

THANK YOU! After watching a dozen MQTT videos (with super-tiny text and thick accents), I finally found your video. Not only did it make sense, but it allowed me to finally get my stupid Tasmotized ESP32 to be recognized in HA. Only drawback: the relays I'm running via Tasmota are only available by directly accessing the URL of the device; I see the relay names in HA, but can't control them from HA. *sigh*

@johntisbury 2 года назад

Very helpful thank you. Great simple MQTT explanation too. Successfully installed and working.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Awesome, glad it was useful!

@Talk2Giuseppe 2 года назад

Excellent video! Thanks! First one I've watched in 2 years and it was simply perfect! Great job!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks, glad it was useful!

@zyghom 3 года назад

PERFECT! I am just starting with HA but I am finding your videos very useful, thank you for your time ;-)

@hakanhallberg8570 3 года назад

Great tutorial! Got my mqtt setup running with your pedagogic instructions,thank's!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

I had to look that word up haha, thank you very much glad it was useful!

@ioanniskoutroulis5866 3 года назад

Nice job! Please consider of making a video, on how to connect a simple relay which is controlled by an esp32 or esp8266, programmed 1. with arduino IDE 2. with espHome.... I think this is something that a lot of people would like to understand, because after a Google research, not many things are clear enough...And all this connected to home assistant (and MQTT with the first part of arduino IDE )

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks I will add it to the list!

@mozapple611 Год назад

Still new to home assistant. Found your video very helpful, but still unable to connect to MQTT, I get connection failed. I'm trying home assistant which doesn't include supervisor so I've setup the MQTT broker manually. I've completed the tests from terminal to check the broker is working, but when I try to connect from home assistant I get connection failed. Any help would be very grateful.

@renaulth2009 3 года назад

For those who maybe have the same problem I had, I couldn't find the Configuration->Users section, you need to enable "Advanced features" on your profile for Users to show up under Configurations.

@richardkswong 2 месяца назад

Thank you. Very thorough explanation.

@davidyoung623 3 года назад

I'd still love to see more stuff that isn't dependent on a supervised install... I have done many of the topics he's covered already, but it would be good to cover them from "both sides", since many people (like myself) run HA in a non-supervised environment like Docker or even Core.

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

I'd love to do more of them too, unfortunately it would double the length of a lot of videos. But where I can, I absolutely will;

@steveelves3499 8 месяцев назад

Great content - thanks! A small suggestion: the black background theme on your HA install may be easy on the eyes for the actual user, but the contrast comes through poorly in RU-vid's window. Please consider filming screens that have higher contrast - bold colours on a white background, for instance.

@raytry69 7 месяцев назад

Or just zoom the browser content.

@TechTutorialsDavidMcKone 3 года назад

Great video. Thanks for the overview and examples. Much appreciated

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Cheers David!

@hop3on600 3 года назад

you saved an hour of my life THX

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Nice 👊

@user-zd3ph2jb5w Год назад

The most important point i have learned in this video: Many tuturials (like the official documentation) ask you to add a "person" in HomeAssistent. But under this dialog you get a complety diffrent dialog and can not set a password. You have to switch the tab and add an "user" instead. I wasted a whole sunday afternoon to reconise this diffrent. So its might be good to highlight this point.

@adrianjoss1 2 года назад

Thank you for sharing. Nice quality tutorial and very easy to understand.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks for watching and commenting!

@streetwiztech5505 3 года назад

Clear and concise as always buddy..

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thank you my friend!

@adamblock8139 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for this. I was having trouble connecting to my local broker and the issue was that I hadn't added an MQTT user to HA.

@MrRosenknut 3 года назад

Great video, thanks. Would like to know how to make a sensor out of MQTTT in the future ;-)

2 года назад

Great video

@jplab 2 года назад

your channel is gold!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thank you sir!

@bikerchrisukk 2 года назад

Very well done with this explanation, I'm very unfamiliar but I'm now closer to making things switch on and off...perhaps even when I want them to :) 👍

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks, glad I could help!

@miguelvieira718 Год назад

small question :) i am trying to start make a small projet here temp and humdity sensor will publish on somewere the measurement and save the values, home assistence is a good option? by the way, do have any video showing how to install home assistence? ty :)

@toomanyhobbies77 2 года назад

Thanks for the tutorial, very useful. I work in software, mqtt is the same as kafka and GCP pub/sub. Very cool!

@user-zd3ph2jb5w Год назад

i do not get it. I followed your video step by step and upp till the point where you use the real-world exampel its working great. But when i try to connect a shelly 1 like you did i do not get any message.

@LukePighetti 2 года назад

Thank you! Now how do you setup a MQTT relay after we get all the infra running?

@eduardobodega5886 3 года назад

Muy bueno compadre !! Excelente explicación !!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Gracias mi amigo!!

@ianrobson9612 7 месяцев назад

Another great video thanks

@sausage5849 2 года назад

Thanks, very helpful!

@davidheron1505 2 года назад

Thanks, Lewis. You've untangled a knotty problem for me. I'm giving serious consideration to being a member. Do you have another contact method rather than this in to cover a few questions? I had a look around by can't see anything immediate.

@TowerThree 2 года назад

I enjoyed the video, but i was hoping for the reasons i would want to add MQTT to my home assistant. What is the benefit?

@Dox-IOT 3 года назад

After watching the videos, everything is simple and clear. Thanks! 😀👌

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks glad you liked it!

@KrispKiwi 2 года назад

Doing a full reinstall of home assistant, things were getting a little too errory in the logs. Time to binge some everything smart home.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Haha YES, binge watch all the videos!

@DavePawson 2 года назад

"You can find that linked up here" .... flashes on for 2 seconds. Please provide links in the text below the video?

@rohanprakash 3 года назад

Great video, will help if you can make a part 2 which covers how you can use the mqtt payloads received by home assistant mqtt broker to trigger actions or display information such as temperature on the lovelace UI

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks! Sure I hope too soon

@JMWTech Год назад

@@EverythingSmartHome Did you end up doing this?

@Benshooman Год назад

I tried to get the mqtt server to listen for a wildcard topic with my Shelly device exactly as you suggested, but it wouldnt show up as an event. Any tips? Im assuming the error was probably Shelly side.

@benscottbongiben 3 года назад

Be good to list interesting Mqtt projects in home assistant like esp home, tasmota, zigbee2mqtt and maybe my sensors. Of course a bit of back story to adoption of mqtt from its inception in oil pipelines and use in WhatsApp and signal also nice to have passing mention. Liking the videos. You are from glasgow aren’t you so am I. Keep it up.

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks Ben appreciate it! Not quite from Glasgow no, much further north in Scotland! Good to see another Scot!

@yahmk3978 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@NissarK Год назад

All my devices through MQTT devices are shown as lights. How to I change that, so lights are shown as lights, locks as locks and sensors as sensors.

@joejoe6949 2 года назад

Thank you you’re every much appreciate your don’t understand.

@SMGGM Год назад

At minute 6:05 in the more recent versions of HA, this "users" tabs is no longer present by default. You must go into your own person settings (left bottom of the page) and enable "Advanced Mode". Been searching like mad why that "users" wasn't shown on my new install.

@bearhntr928 Год назад

Do you have a video or guide on doing this if MQTT is on a separate VM? I wanna give it a whirl, as I have HAOS on a Proxmox host, and my MariaDB is on separate VM/container already. Wanted to think about doing MQTT on separate VM/container as well.

@djsconsulting 8 месяцев назад

Hi - I'm about to start the Home Assistant journey. I already have a lot of IoT sensors, some use Modbus protocol. Can Home Assistant talk to Modbus ? Thanks.

@058Jacko 3 года назад

Great stuff! Can you do one on Rest API

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thank you sir!

@engineerfpv 2 года назад

very very clean man. I am trying this with tasmota. but i have a problem with connecting to the mqtt server. I also run duckdns. and thats where it gets a bit complicated with the ip. not sure if thats my problem though. everything else seems to be okay. i have tested with https and without for my duckdns and same with my ip.

@DJ.Hammer 2 года назад

Should Debugging be on (I am getting Client unknown closed its connection)

@mzaentertainment5618 10 месяцев назад

Hi may i know what is the possible issue i need to adress if device not appear in mqtt? Actually i already pair it with zigbee2mqtt addon.

@hybrispsycho1 3 года назад

great video, i had to learn mqtt a month or so back and this would have made things a bit easier. have you considered doing a node-red video?

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Cheers Mark, I have, lots of people have requested it. I keep putting it off 👀🤣

@hybrispsycho1 3 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome haha fair enough, imanaged to get a light working once and i cant even remember how i did it, everyone raves about node red though and says so much more can be done with it than automations in HA. i can wait, im trying to leave my system alone for a bit so i dont break anything now its finally working like a dream.

@kamil2k111 3 года назад

Please make a tutorial on how to install HO with supervisor on TrueNas in Virtual Machine.

@bishamsingh1490 2 года назад

Hi Lewis Thanks for all your help. I am running ZAH in home assistant and my devices are dropping off too frequently, have to reboot home assistant every few days . I would like to switch to MQTT. I have the Zigbee bridge flash with Tasmota 4 sonoff mini behind switches, 1 motion sensor and a toggle switch to controle the lights. How is the best way to do the switch to MQTT. I already have MQTT install following one of your previous video but not using it. Thanks Lewis. P.S . I watch your video on the Mushroom dashboard, will try that after i figure this MQTT thing.

@rhysbevan429 2 года назад

Thanks!

@d580602 3 года назад

Thanks for your share video!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@jeffreyanderson02 3 года назад

Excellent video and explanation. I've seen other videos similar to this, but the piece that never gets explained is why. There are Zwave to MQTT and Zigbee to MQTT addons, but what is the advantage vs the standard addons? Is MQTT just for pulling in devices that don't integrate directly? If so, how to you take a device on your MQTT broker and create an entity in HA?

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Tha is Jeffrey! MQTT is just a ubiquitous way of exchanign information so it's an excellent way to integrate devices together and get them talking, it's super lightweight and fast!

@shlomom2882 Год назад

I can't find a video that shows how to add mqtt switches in the home assistant 😪 please help me?

@Alllbruce 3 года назад

Thx for the great videos! I saw you reviewed SwitchBot curtain. Can you make a tutorial to get it working with home assistant? (without using a SwitchBot hub? Thx in advance!

@aarteconcentrado4617 3 года назад

Hello good morning and first of all thanks for your videos, I ask you a question to see if you can help me, I have the lights of my home with esp8266 before I used adafruit and fttt and change to hassio but I have the problem that mqtt connects and disconnects repeatedly Sometimes and there are points where it is no longer connected, can you think of a solution? or do I go back to ifttt and adafruit? thank you very much genius

@mrxmry3264 2 года назад

are those MQTT messages transmitted over TCP or UDP? if it's TCP, that takes care of the delivery guarantees. TCP not only guarantees that all packets get delivered, it also guarantees that they come out the other end in the right order, even if a packet gets lost and needs to be re-transmitted out of sequence. with UDP there are no such guarantees, but it can be faster than TCP because there is no handshake.

@krawn06 4 месяца назад

Is this the one I want to see my Ring doorbell image? I can't find ring-MQTT

@OthmanAlikhan 3 года назад

Thanks for the video =)

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks for watching!

@shahbaztech7064 2 года назад

I make mobile in kivy and I want to connect with esp32. With the mqtt protocol. How I can use it kindly make a vedio on it

@alejandrortl 3 года назад

Great!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Thanks Alejandro!

@enredao_electronico2737 3 года назад

Hello , very well explainned . Might EMQ X Broker work with HA ?

@cassio2999 2 года назад

This video starts at 5:00

@boopeshkumarprabhakaran 3 года назад

how to install mqtt client in esp32 or esp8266 with custom code can you make a video on that...its easy to setup devices which are ready for mqtt but making a non mqtt supported code(lets say blink sketch in arduino ide) to mqtt client is herd for newbes like me...people like you could really help us

@user-so5uo1xx5t 2 года назад

thanks for you but users not show in my home assistant how to show it

@gerrymoloney8339 2 года назад

Will this work with a ConBee stick?

@lgg4doru430 7 месяцев назад

Hello, I have a request for you if you can help me. I installed HA on a generic laptop-x86-64 250Gb storage and 8Gb memory. I got a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 Dongle plus and 2 Aqara P1 motion sensors. I can't integrate Zigbee2MQTT in HA. I install, I did all the configurations from your tutorials but the add-on does not start. You can help me, I haven't gotten any help from anyone here. Thank you very much. I note that HA is the only one installed on the laptop.

@sashb9331 Год назад

Thanks for your instructions but it was a nightmare trying to find the correct places to find these menu links etc. One thing I think you didnt cover is what if those messages are not getting published. I believe I have done everything you mentioned but no messages getting published @ 7:06

@dc857 Год назад

Same here. Followed the instructions to the letter but my shelly devices are not publishing messages....

@jaap7374 3 года назад

I have the impression the video stopped when it just got interesting. You ended with "everything you need to set up your sensor", but didn't explain how this works! What is the right way to create a sensor? How do I disentangle the payload into something useful? I'd love if you could create a follow-up video since this stuff is not easy to find.

@jachencarl 3 года назад

Hi, I am totally with you. Spent hours to find useful docs on how to integrate sensors for my weather station data. Ended up screwing up the server overwriting the default config.yaml. Did you find useful docs on integration of sensors with yaml?

@public_static 2 года назад

Here is how i used it: 1. I created a script with Call Service --> mqtt.publish (use the mqtt integration page to find the correct value to publish [has shown in the video] ) 2. created a sensor to get my TV status. here is what i added to the configuration.yaml file: sensor: - platform: mqtt name: tv_sensor state_topic: "/remoteapp/mobile/broadcast/ui_service/state" value_template: |- {% if value_json.statetype == "app" %} {{ value_json.name }} {% else %} {{ value_json.displayname }} {% endif %} after resetting the server i was able to find the new sensor as a new entity. Hope this helps.

@joejoe6949 2 года назад

Brother can you make a video on topic for dummies

@kevinrust5982 Год назад

It keeps saying cannot connect at mqtt?

@drreality1 3 года назад

Thanks for the tutorial sir, do you recommend securing mqtt messages with ssl certificates is necessary if I access home assistant through home vpn ? Appreciated

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

If your running MQTT on your local network and only on your local network then I don't see a need for it personally but the option is there if you want to do it. If it runs over the internet then yes always use SSL

@Worexon 3 года назад

Hi! How do i change QoS from 0 to 1 or 2?

@WRW87 9 месяцев назад

thanks!+

@abrammanoge 3 года назад

From here how to i do about adding mqtt devices in homeassistant.

@corvusprojects 3 года назад

I've been struggling with this for the last 3 days. I can't even get Frigate to start! I'm using it within Home Assistant on my Unraid server, but the Frigate log says 'ERROR : Unable to connect to MQTT server: [Errno 111] Connection refused'. I typed exactly what you did in your frigate.yml. I tested MQTT within HA just as you said, and it works. I opened all ports. I can't figure out what to do, it's driving me nuts! Any ideas?

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

Hope in the discord server I'm sure we can sort you out!

@BeiLLiac4 3 года назад

And how to add then mqtt devices? This is only half way.....

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

I will cover this in a seperate video, there are tons of different ways to add MQTT devices so I wanted to do a few dedicated examples in a video

@johntamplin 2 года назад

2:04 "receive" not "recieve" 3:20 "guarantee(d)" not "guarentee(d)"

@shadowcats 3 года назад

You will probably need to reboot your Shelly device after configuring MQTT. Shelly firmware is notorious for not activating changes with a simple save command. Save, then reboot!

@EverythingSmartHome 3 года назад

It is indeed!