Run mqtt locally?

[PaddyB]

Hi Paddy,

certainly you can run MQTT locally, you just need a MQTT-Broker. The most common one is mosquitto (https://mosquitto.org/).
It is very simple to use and there are tons of tutorials out there. If you need assistance feel free to ask.

Currently I'm not running OpenPlotter but I guess the MQTT-data can be handled by SignalK (https://github.com/tkurki/signalk-mqtt-gw) and therefore used by OpenPlotter.

Have a nice weekend

Thanks, mosquitto is actually installed in openplotter and running already -

pi@openplotter:~ $ mosquitto  -h
mosquitto version 1.3.4 (build date 2017-05-29 22:25:09+0000)

mosquitto is an MQTT v3.1 broker.

Usage: mosquitto [-c config_file] [-d] [-h] [-p port]

 -c : specify the broker config file.
 -d : put the broker into the background after starting.
 -h : display this help.
 -p : start the broker listening on the specified port.
      Not recommended in conjunction with the -c option.
 -v : verbose mode - enable all logging types. This overrides
      any logging options given in the config file.

See http://mosquitto.org/ for more information.

I just don't know the passwords / user name etc. I remember sailoog talking about this a while ago but can't find the posts now.

Ta