Homeassistant MQTT (and NATS)

I have a couple of automations (pool pump being most important) that run over Zigbee2MQTT.

I was using the Homeassistant built in MQTT broker but decided to test out NATS MQTT implementation and see if it was compatible. It works a treat!

However, when doing this to make it work I didn’t realise that I need to update the Z2M configuration and point it at the NATS cluster and reconfigure HA’s MQTT service to use it as well.

When I triggered things from the HA Z2M panel everything worked as expected and I could see messages being routed but my automations wouldn’t work.

The fix is Settings -> Devices & services -> MQTT -> Reconfigure then change the broker address. Once I did that my automations started working again.

Tags:

#mqtt #nats #Homeassistant