EMQX mqtt broker - better than Mosquitto?

welcome to this tutorial on how to install and set up mqx mqtt broker on home assistant mqtt is a popular protocol for connecting devices and sending messages and mqx is a powerful mqtt broker that can handle a large number of connection and messages with ease it also has a user-friendly interface and advanced features that make it a great choice for those looking to upgrade from the mosquito broker so let's get started connect to your home assistant server and open the addons page which you can find in the settings menu if you have already installed the mosquito broker take note of the user's credential and stop the add-on then disable start on boot to make sure it won't interfere with any mqx install emqx from the official repository and start it then open the dashboard and log in with the default credentials the username name is admin and the password is public change the default password to something more secure Now to create the same credential that you had for the mosquito broker opened the authentication tab under access control and create a new authentication method leave everything as it is and hit create in the authentication method that you just created select users and add your desired credentials it is a good idea to create different users for each device or group of devices such as one for home assistant and one for ESP home the final step is to add or upgrade the mqtt integration in home assistant to do this go to the settings menu and open devices and services if mqtt is not present click on ADD integration and search for it if mqtt is already present click on configure and then reconfigure mqtt in the broker field type localhost and then enter the user credential that you created for home assistant in the step before finally click on subnet if everything is working as expected you can now uninstall your mosquito broker and that's it you should now be able to use emqx as your mqtt broker on home assistant if this video was useful please leave a like And subscribe bye [Music]

Channel: Fabio Garavini

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Length: 2min 35sec (155 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 21 2022