Set up MQTT

[nixmeer]

Hi there,
I had to reinstall ebusd on a newly setup SD card after getting kernel errors with the old one. No pi imager was able to erase and write to this card. I followed the instructions here and just double checked in the command history that I used the default version with mqtt. However, when running ebusd there are no mqtt publications on the broker. ebusd is running with the following options:

ebusd -f --scanconfig -d enh:/dev/ttyAMA0 --latency=50 --mqtthost="HOST" --port=1883 --mqtttopic=whr2 --mqttuser=USER --mqttpass=PASSWORD --mqttjson

I tried mosquitto_pub -h "HOST" -t "Test" -m "Hello1234" -u USER -P PASSWORD and it worked (mosquitto and mosquitto-clients are installed but I use a remote broker). When trying ebusd, mosquitto did not show any logs like unauthorized access.

The output of ebusd does not give any hint to a broken mqtt connection what so ever.

Does anyone have any idea what to do? Is there any way to publish a test message from within ebusd to confirm I installed the version with mqtt?

Thanks!

[jjfoid]

For automatic publications, I use mqtt-hassio configuration file.
Just put the file at the location where ebusd can find it, and pass it as a parameter in addition to yours
--mqttint=/etc/ebusd/mqtt-hassio.cfg
Works for me out of the box without any tribal dances :)