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| MQTT Testing | Instructions on how to test your MQTT setup. | mqtt.png |
The mosquitto broker package ships commandline tools (often as *-clients package) to send and receive MQTT messages. For sending test messages to a broker running on localhost check the example below:
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -t home-assistant/switch/1/on -m "Switch is ON"
Another way to send MQTT messages manually is to use the "MQTT" integration in the frontend. Choose "Settings" on the left menu, click "Devices & Services", and choose "Configure" in the "Mosquitto broker" tile. Enter something similar to the example below into the "topic" field under "Publish a packet" and press "PUBLISH" .
home-assistant/switch/1/power
and in the Payload field
ON
In the "Listen to a topic" field, type # to see everything, or "home-assistant/switch/#" to just follow a published topic, then press "START LISTENING". The messages should appear similar to the text below:
Message 23 received on home-assistant/switch/1/power/stat/POWER at 12:16 PM:
ON
QoS: 0 - Retain: false
Message 22 received on home-assistant/switch/1/power/stat/RESULT at 12:16 PM:
{
"POWER": "ON"
}
QoS: 0 - Retain: false
For reading all messages sent on the topic home-assistant to a broker running on localhost:
mosquitto_sub -h 127.0.0.1 -v -t "home-assistant/#"