RPI Gateway: Connect to Controller and MQTT broker with different IP addresses



  • Hi all,
    I am trying to use a RPI as mysensors' gateway for both MQTT as well as RFM69 and connected to network using ethernet. As controller I am using HomeAssistant. Is it possible to run a MQTT broker like mosquito on this gateway / or on a device other than the controller?
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    It looks like the assumption is that the MQTT broker is on the same device as the Controller:
    https://www.mysensors.org/apidocs/group__RaspberryPiGateway.html:
    MySensors options:

    --my-controller-url-address=<URL>
                                Controller or MQTT broker url.
    --my-controller-ip-address=<IP>
                                Controller or MQTT broker ip.
    

    But maybe I misunderstand.

    I was trying to use the following:

    ./configure --my-gateway=ethernet --my-controller-ip-address=<HomeAssistant IP>  --my-transport=rfm69 --my-rfm69-frequency=433 --my-is-rfm69hw --my-gateway=mqtt --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mygateway1
    

    Where <HomeAssistant IP> is 192.168.XX.AA in my picture

    But that doesn't allow me to specify the MQTT broker on a different device than the Controller/Home Assistant...

    Perhaps I got this all wrong?


  • Mod

    --my-gateway=ethernet means a TCP connection between the gateway and the controller. Only one my-gateway option should be specified. If you want to use mqtt, use only --my-gateway=mqtt

    Set --my-controller-ip-address to the ip if the mqtt broker.

    See the MQTT section on https://www.mysensors.org/build/raspberry#configure for more information.



  • @mfalkvidd Many thanks for your quick and helpful reply! Could I ask you two more clarifying questions:

    • So if define the rpi as a mqtt gateway, can I see this mqtt GW still as my GW for my RFM69 sensors?
    • Or do I need to split out the ethernet GW for my RFM69 sensors from the mqtt GW?

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  • Mod

    @rjgmba yes it will still be gw for your rfm69 sensors, the picture to the left is correct.



  • Thanks for clarifying, @mfalkvidd, so that means that I won't use the Ethernet GW, but only the MQTT GW configuration, changing it to

    ./configure --my-gateway=mqtt --my-controller-ip-address=192.168.X.BB --my-transport=rfm69 --my-rfm69-frequency=433 --my-is-rfm69hw --my-mqtt-publish-topic-prefix=mysensors-out --my-mqtt-subscribe-topic-prefix=mysensors-in --my-mqtt-client-id=mymqttgateway1
    

    Where <MQTT / MySensors GW IP address> is the MySensors RPI IP address.

    But that also means that in Home-Assistant I will need to change the configuration yaml file and take out the Ethernet GW reference:

    So from

    mysensors:
      gateways:
        - device: '192.168.X.BB'
          persistence_file: 'mysensors3.json'
          tcp_port: 5003
        - device: mqtt
          persistence_file: 'mysensors1.json'
          topic_in_prefix: 'mysensors-out'
          topic_out_prefix: 'mysensors-in'
      optimistic: false
      persistence: true
      retain: true
      version: '2.0'
    

    to

    mysensors:
      gateways:
        - device: mqtt
          persistence_file: 'mysensors1.json'
          topic_in_prefix: 'mysensors-out'
          topic_out_prefix: 'mysensors-in'
      optimistic: false
      persistence: true
      retain: true
      version: '2.0'
    

    But how will Home-Assistant now know what the IP address is for the MySensors RPI gateway?

    Apologies if I completely missing something obvious....


  • Mod

    @rjgmba Home Assistant should connect to the mosquitto broker


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