I copied the example mosquitto.conf to /etc/mosquitto then added these lines:
listener 1883 allow_anonymous true and now the broker is working again. Thanks very much for the help. On Monday, December 27, 2021 at 11:37:59 AM UTC-7 Greg Troxel wrote: > > Timothy Buchanan <timothye...@gmail.com> writes: > > > When I start mosquitto manually, it will work only locally, that is, > from > > one instance of terminal to another, but will not pick up subscribed > > messages published by a device on the same LAN. Do these error messages > on > > install tell me how to troubleshoot mosquitto? Thanks for any help. > > As Karen says, this is probably due to a change in default behavior for > mosquitto 2. Basically, it's a bug for a program to listen on the > network by default, when it can make sense to only be on localhost. > Certainly one can make mosquitto 2.0.x listen on the network beyond > localhost. > > It sounds like you do not have a configuration file and have not > configured authentication or an explicit listener. Basically, don't do > that - read the docs and set up mosquitto intentionally. > > > Note the man page > > -p, --port > Listen on the port specified. May be specified up to 10 times to > open multiple sockets listening on different ports. > > Important > In version 1.6.x and earlier, the listener defined by -p (or > the default port of 1883) would be bound to all interfaces and > so be accessible from any network. It could also be used in > combination with -c. > > From version 2.0 onwards, the listeners defined with -p are > bound to the loopback interface only, and so can only be > connected to from the local machine. If both -p is used and a > listener is defined in a configuration file, then the -p > options are IGNORED. > > See also ChangeLog.txt in the sources > > 2.0.0 - 2020-12-03 > ================== > > Breaking changes: > > - When the Mosquitto broker is run without configuring any listeners it > will > now bind to the loopback interfaces 127.0.0.1 and/or ::1. This means that > only connections from the local host will be possible. > > - All listeners now default to `allow_anonymous false` unless explicitly > set > to true in the configuration file. This means that when configuring a > listener the user must either configure an authentication and access > control > method, or set `allow_anonymous true`. When the broker is run without a > configured listener, and so binds to the loopback interface, anonymous > connections are allowed. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/c4887d55-13eb-45a7-8ef2-f20a65069d8en%40googlegroups.com.
