Trying to connect to Home Assistant using MQTT or NMEA

[hopkinslaw]

My pypilot is up and working. I would like top be able to bring it into home assistant.

This should be possible but I am struggling.

First, I tried getting it to communicate via mqtt. I have a server setup. First I ssh into the pypilot and ran:
nano ~/.pipilot/settings/.json

In that document I entered

{
"mqtt_server": "192.168.x.xxx", (my HA ip)
"mqtt_port": 1883,
"mqtt_user": "(my user name)",
"mqtt_password": "(my pass)"
}

I rebooted pilot but nothing came over mqtt.

I then tried another approach. I tried connecting over nmea. At the bottom of the configuration page of pypilot I put in the box 192.168.X.XXX:10110 (my HA) and this entry persists so I assume it is in effect.

I installed an integration in HA that listens for Nmea data but it gets none. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRW9AfD03fg). It asked for the IP of the pypilot and the port, 10110.

HA sees no NMEA data.

How can I get pypilot to converse with Home Assistant?