diff --git a/chatbot_core/utils/bot_utils.py b/chatbot_core/utils/bot_utils.py
index 0e55d50..3ed3a75 100644
--- a/chatbot_core/utils/bot_utils.py
+++ b/chatbot_core/utils/bot_utils.py
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 # from socketio import Client
 from multiprocessing import Process, Event, synchronize
 from threading import Thread, current_thread
+
+import pkg_resources
 from mycroft_bus_client import Message, MessageBusClient
 
 from nltk.translate.bleu_score import sentence_bleu
@@ -43,9 +45,11 @@
 import yaml
 from klat_connector import start_socket
 
-from chatbot_core.utils.logger import LOG
-# from chatbot_core import ChatBot
+from ovos_utils.log import LOG
 
+# Causes circular imports
+# from chatbot_core import ChatBot
+# from chatbot_core.v2 import ChatBot as ChatBotV2
 
 def get_ip_address():
     s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
@@ -318,6 +322,19 @@ def start_bots(domain: str = None, bot_dir: str = None, username: str = None, pa
             p.join()
 
 
+def cli_start_mq_bot():
+    """
+    Entrypoint to start an MQ chatbot
+    """
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Start a chatbot")
+    parser.add_argument("--bot", dest="bot_name",
+                        help="Chatbot entrypoint name", type=str)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    run_mq_bot(args.bot_name)
+
+
 def cli_start_bots():
     """
     Entry Point to start bots from a Console Script
@@ -624,6 +641,44 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
     return wrapper
 
 
+def _find_bot_modules():
+    try:
+        from importlib_metadata import entry_points
+        bot_entrypoints = entry_points(group="neon.plugin.chatbot")
+    except ImportError:
+        bot_entrypoints = pkg_resources.iter_entry_points("neon.plugin.chatbot")
+
+    return {entry.name: entry.load() for entry in bot_entrypoints}
+
+
+def run_mq_bot(chatbot_name: str, vhost: str = '/chatbots',
+               run_kwargs: dict = None, init_kwargs: dict = None):
+    """
+    Get an initialized MQ Chatbot instance
+    @param chatbot_name: chatbot entrypoint name and configuration key
+    @param vhost: MQ vhost to connect to (default /chatbots)
+    @param run_kwargs: kwargs to pass to chatbot `run` method
+    @param init_kwargs: extra kwargs to pass to chatbot `__init__` method
+    @returns: Started ChatBotV2 instance
+    """
+    from neon_utils.log_utils import init_log
+    init_log({"logs": {"level_overrides": {"error": ['pika'],
+                                           "warning": ["filelock"]}}})
+    os.environ['CHATBOT_VERSION'] = 'v2'
+    run_kwargs = run_kwargs or dict()
+    init_kwargs = init_kwargs or dict()
+    bots = _find_bot_modules()
+    clazz = bots.get(chatbot_name)
+    if init_kwargs.get('config'):
+        LOG.info(f"Config specified: {init_kwargs['config']}")
+    if not clazz:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Requested bot `{chatbot_name}` not found in: "
+                           f"{list(bots.keys())}")
+    bot = clazz(service_name=chatbot_name, vhost=vhost, **init_kwargs)
+    bot.run(**run_kwargs)
+    return bot
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     start_bots("chatbotsforum.org", "~/PycharmProjects/chatbots", "Prompter", "n30nn30n", "2222.us", None, "BLENDER",
                None, True, True)
diff --git a/chatbot_core/utils/logger.py b/chatbot_core/utils/logger.py
index b84c009..af7f9d5 100644
--- a/chatbot_core/utils/logger.py
+++ b/chatbot_core/utils/logger.py
@@ -17,20 +17,23 @@
 # US Patents 2008-2021: US7424516, US20140161250, US20140177813, US8638908, US8068604, US8553852, US10530923, US10530924
 # China Patent: CN102017585  -  Europe Patent: EU2156652  -  Patents Pending
 
-import logging
+from ovos_utils.log import LOG
+LOG.name = "chatbots"
 
 # fmt = '%(asctime)s - %(levelname)-8s - %(name)s:%(filename)s:%(module)s:%(funcName)s:%(lineno)d - %(message)s'
 # logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG, format=fmt, datefmt='%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S')
-LOG = logging.getLogger("chatbots")
+# LOG = logging.getLogger("chatbots")
 # logging.getLogger("socketio.client").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
 # logging.getLogger("engineio.client").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
 # logging.getLogger("urllib3").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
 
 
-def make_logger(name, level=logging.DEBUG):
+def make_logger(name, level=None):
     """
     Create a logger with the specified name (used to create bot loggers)
     """
+    import logging
+    level = level or logging.DEBUG
     logger = logging.getLogger(name)
     logger.setLevel(level)
     return logging.getLogger(name)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fad30d8..207baae 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ def get_requirements(requirements_filename: str):
     entry_points={'console_scripts': ["start-klat-bots=chatbot_core.utils:cli_start_bots",
                                       "stop-klat-bots=chatbot_core.utils:cli_stop_bots",
                                       "debug-klat-bots=chatbot_core.utils:debug_bots",
-                                      "start-klat-prompter=chatbot_core.utils:cli_start_prompter"]},
+                                      "start-klat-prompter=chatbot_core.utils:cli_start_prompter",
+                                      "start-mq-bot=chatbot_core.utils.bot_utils:cli_start_mq_bot"]},
     install_requires=get_requirements("requirements.txt"),
     extras_requires={"extra-lgpl": get_requirements("extra-lgpl.txt")}
 )