This is at your own risk. I don’t support any accidents or screwups. I am sure Opto22 support won’t either, as this is using SSH.
Background Info - The Why
This is handy when you have multiple locations with no internet access but have setup network access (Wireless network, 900mhz packet radio, etc). This is not about a central MQTT server, but passing data from device to device without using PAC in the middle. My own setups are growing and there are a lot times we have to use our own IP networks with no central servers or Internet access. This lets me bypass building strategies where I have to worry about installing certificates between PR1’s.
Our ‘product’ line keeps growing and having to keep certificates and make sure that all works in a major pain. There is a Node-red plugin called Mosca, but even if you are not publishing a huge amount of data, it uses a lot of RAM and continues grow. In my testing it actually made my PR1 unstable and needed reboot as the memory load grew very high. Mosquitto is way more memory efficient.
This saves writing to a pac node controller which sucks when you start hitting with to many writes/reads. Opto needs to come up with a better queuing system for the controller as it can be overwhelmed quickly.
When building strategies with PAC Control, use tables as much as you can when using Node-Red, probably in general.
Have Fun!
Dan
Get Source & Make
wget https://mosquitto.org/files/source/mosquitto-1.5.8.tar.gz
tar -xzvf mosquitto-1.5.8.tar.gz
cd mosquitto-1.5.8
sudo make WITH_SRV=no
Add user
sudo useradd mosquitto
Install
sudo cp client/mosquitto_pub /usr/bin
sudo cp client/mosquitto_sub /usr/bin
sudo cp lib/libmosquitto.so.1 /usr/lib
sudo cp src/mosquitto /usr/bin
sudo cp src/mosquitto_passwd /usr/bin
sudo mkdir /etc/mosquitto/
sudo cp mosquitto.conf /etc/mosquitto/
Edit Mosquitto Config
sudo nano /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
Search for #allow_anonymous true and change the line to be:
allow_anonymous false
Search for #user root and change the line to be:
user mosquitto
Make sure you remove the pound sign from the start of both lines
Add user to mosquitto auth
sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto_pass.txt nodered
To Start on boot
(Uses VI. Need to know it’s commands)
crontab -e
@reboot mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf &
Add port to the firewall
https://YOURIP/manage/local/system/firewall
Port 1883
Reboot and publish to your local mqtt server
General Info:
To stop Mosquitto:
pgrep mosquitto
kill -9 PID (that you get from above command)
To Start Mosquitto without a reboot:
mosquitto -c /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf &
#nodered is the user I am using, you can choose anything. Be careful, if you are asked twice, it’s because you have to enter your root password again. If it only asks once with confirmation, this is the password you are setting for mosquitto
I have sourced the authentication information from:
Please note, this does not include websockets support. Maybe in the future.
This is at your own risk. I don’t support any accidents or screwups. I am sure Opto22 support won’t either, as this is using SSH.
