No MQTT topic visible

[digitaltopo]

The problem

Following the setup guide to get things working with my usb rtl dongle... I'm pretty new to mqtt, RTL, and HA.

I have installed:

• rtl_433 addon,
• rtl_433_mqtt_autodiscovery addon
• Mosquitto broker addon
• MQTT integration
• MQTT Explorer addon

I've previously been able to successfully setup mqtt with another integration (frigate), and can successfully connect to MQTT explorer.

The issue is I'm not seeing any RTL related topics (rtl_433) in MQTT explorer, only two topics show up:

• $Sys
• Frigate

Everything is pretty much setup with defaults. I've also tried the next version of the addon and it's the same. What am I missing?

The only thing I noticed that wasn't reporting nominal was in the Mosquitto broker addon logs, where several lines indicated that clients attempting to connect were not authorized:

New connection from 172.30.34.5:56145 on port 1883.
Client 7bovq6UQZ3y3StyERq4gwb disconnected, not authorised.

I've attached the logs below.

Do I need to configure the user/pass for the rtl_433* addons (output in config)? The docs seemed to suggest I wouldn't need to if things were left stock.

Appreciate any help, thanks!

What addon are you reporting the bug for?

rtl_443

What is the addon version?

next & 0.5.1

What type of MQTT Broker are you using?

Home Assistant Mosquitto MQTT Broker

Addon log messages

The rtl_433 addon log:

Starting rtl_433 with rtl_433.conf...
[rtl_433] rtl_433 version 23.11-63-ga697a1a9 branch master at 202402290110 inputs file rtl_tcp RTL-SDR
[rtl_433] MQTT: Publishing MQTT data to core-mosquitto port 1883
[rtl_433] MQTT: Publishing device info to MQTT topic "rtl_433/9b13b3f4-rtl433-next/devices[/type][/model][/subtype][/channel][/id]".
[rtl_433] MQTT: Publishing events info to MQTT topic "rtl_433/9b13b3f4-rtl433-next/events".
[rtl_433] MQTT: Publishing states info to MQTT topic "rtl_433/9b13b3f4-rtl433-next/states".
[rtl_433] Use "-F log" if you want any messages, warnings, and errors in the console.
[rtl_433] Found Rafael Micro R820T tuner
[rtl_433] Exact sample rate is: 250000.000414 Hz
[rtl_433] [R82XX] PLL not locked!

The rtl_433_mqtt_autodiscovery addon log:

mqtt found in this Home Assistance instance.
Starting rtl_433_mqtt_hass.py...
[2024-02-29T00:39:36-0800] INFO:root:Discovering all devices
[2024-02-29T00:39:36-0800] INFO:root:MQTT connected: Connection Accepted.
[2024-02-29T00:39:36-0800] INFO:root:Subscribing to: rtl_433/+/events

### Additional information

_No response_

[deviantintegral]

Everything looks correct, and you shouldn't have to do anything manually to set up the username or password.

Can you try something simple - can you restart both the MQTT broker addon and the rtl_433 addon? Once or twice I've noticed that Home Assistant passes stale or invalid passwords in. But, I've never been able to reliably replicate.

[digitaltopo]

@deviantintegral Thanks for the suggestion!

I've tried that several times and no luck unfortunately.

Not sure what changed, but I reinstalled and this worked! Now seeing messages from rtl_433! Thank you!