How to Install Mosquitto Broker on Raspberry Pi

  1. Install the mosquitto broker with the command below:

sudo apt install -y mosquitto mosquitto-clients

  1. Create a password file (you’ll be promted to enter the password).

mosquitto_passwd -c passwordfile user

  1. move the password file to /etc/mosquitto

sudo mv passwordfile /etc/mosquitto/

  1. Update mosquitto broker config so it uses the created password file.

Create a custom config file in /etc/mosquitto/conf.d

sudo nano /etc/mosquitto/conf.d/config.cfg

Here is the configuration I am using and it works fine with Home Assistant:

user mosquitto
max_queued_messages 200
listener 1883 0.0.0.0
allow_zero_length_clientid true
allow_duplicate_messages false 
autosave_interval 900
autosave_on_changes false
persistence true
persistence_file mosquitto.db
allow_anonymous false
password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwordfile

Here is how to check mosquitto logs.

sudo cat /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log

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