The Home Assistant MQTT broker is the simplest part of the whole system, it simply allows Home Assistant to know where the MQTT server is running so that it can register and listen for updates.
- In HomeAssistant navigate to the Integrations page (
Settings
->Devices & Services
)
- Click
Add Integration
- Type
MQTT
and select the Integration
- Select
MQTT
from the options that appear
- In the configuration enter the hostname/IP of the "Broker" that was setup running MQTT
- Enter
1883
in the Port (See above) - Leave all other fields blank and click
Next
- For all other setup options use the default values
You now have completed all of the prequisite steps in order to use Grott to forward data to Home Assistant. If you haven't already installed the HomeAssistant Grott Integration, follow the steps here and then data should start appearing within a minute.
Further information on how the setup works & further setup steps, take a look at the FAQ.