It's pretty simple Although an automation-heavy tool of this caliber may seem overly complex to set up, the Mosquitto service makes deploying an MQTT server on your Raspberry Pi a breeze.

If you followed the Raspberry Pi MQTT broker install instructions, you’ll have a recent version of the Mosquitto MQTT broker installed that’s already got Websockets support compiled in.

Another Pi Zero 2W in my home lab runs Mosquitto, a lightweight MQTT broker. It handles all the local communication between my smart sensors, switches, and automation tools.

The MQTT dashboard is built using Node.js and Express framework. It is using the Mosquitto application as my MQTT broker.” Raspberry Pi weather station Watch this video on YouTube.

In this case, we’ll use the test.mosquitto.org server that we used in the first installment. To bridge a topic, we need to add a new configuration file on our home Pi-based MQTT server.

Raspberry Pi enthusiasts interested in building their very own Raspberry Pi 4 home automation server using Docker, OpenHAB, HASSIO and NextCloud should check out the tutorial embedded below ...