Home Assistant MQTT Broker Install

May 13, 2022

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#### In the video below, we show you how to install and configure the Mosquitto MQTT Broker in Home Assistant

MQTT is a messaging protocol for IOT devices that opens up a lot of possibilities for Home Assistant

It doesn’t need additional hardware because it will run on your existing computer network

But MQTT does require a broker to acts a bit like a Post Office for all the messages

Fortunately Home Assistant is supplied with an MQTT broker add-on

Useful links:

https://mqtt-explorer.com/

Steps Taken

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Install Broker

For Home Assistant, we’ll install an add-on called Mosquitto broker

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Create HA user account

We’ll create a separate account for the integration software to login with

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Install Integration

HA needs to connect to the broker so we’ll install the MQTT integration

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Create device account

We’ll create a separate account for MQTT devices to login with

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MQTT-Explorer

This is a very useful tool and we use it to demo how to connect to the broker

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