+ OwnTracks With Two MQTT Brokers +
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I (surge919) successfully tied in OwnTracks to Home Assistant and SmartThings while using authentication for external access. The MQTT bridge doesn’t support authentication so I set up 2 MQTT instances.
+ +Here are the steps I performed. Hopefully it saves someone else some time.
+ +It seems to be working pretty well but if anyone sees something incorrect in my configuration, please let me know. This is my first real interaction with MQTT.
+ +Here’s a summary of my setup:
+ +Two Docker instances for MQTT
+ +-
+
- 1 for internal use (the MQTT bridge for SmartThings - no authentication) +
- 1 for external use (for OwnTracks - with authentication) +
All Docker configuration files are on my NAS so the Docker containers can be destroyed without affecting my actual configuration files.
+ +Docker setup for the mosquitto internal instance. No authentication for use with the MQTT bridge.
+ +$ docker run -ti -p 1883:1883 \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-int/config:/mqtt/config:ro \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-int/log:/mqtt/log \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-int/data/:/mqtt/data/ \
+ --name mosquitto-int -d toke/mosquitto
+
+Docker setup for the mosquitto external instance. With authentication for use with Owntracks.
+ +$ docker run -ti -p 1884:1883 \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-ext/config:/mqtt/config:ro \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-ext/log:/mqtt/log \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-ext/data/:/mqtt/data/ \
+ -v /volume1/data/mosquitto-ext/etc:/etc/mosquitto \
+ --name mosquitto-ext -d toke/mosquitto
+
+Here are the config files:
+ +/volume1/data/mosquitto-int/config/mosquitto.conf
connection mosquitto-ext
+persistence_file mosquitto.db
+try_private true
+address 10.0.0.20:1884
+start_type automatic
+sername test
+password test
+notifications true
+topic owntracks/# in
+log_type all
+log_dest file /mqtt/log/mqtt.log
+log_facility 5
+
+/volume1/data/mosquitto-ext/config/mosquitto.conf
connection mosquitto-int
+persistence_file mosquitto.db
+try_private true
+address 10.0.0.20:1883
+start_type automatic
+username test
+password test
+notifications true
+topic owntracks/# out
+log_type all
+log_dest file /mqtt/log/mqtt.log
+log_facility 5
+allow_anonymous false
+password_file /etc/mosquitto/pwfile
+
+Create a password for mosquitto-ext
$ docker exec -it mosquitto-ext /bin/bash
+$ cd /etc/mosquitto/
+$ mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/pwfile <userID>
+
+OwnTracks settings for Android
+ +Preferences / Connection / Mode - Private MQTT
+
+Fill out
+ Host
+ Identification
+ Security: TLS disabled
+
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