Best practices for choosing a broker?

Hi all,

I was about to start writing an interface for my second round of experimentation with an esp8266, and I realized this seems a better option.

Given i have NO existing MQTT devices or running software, what’s the most user-friendly option for a broker, starting from scratch.

I have a Synology DS like FlyingDiver did for testing, so the Docker option on that? Docker on my mac running Indigo? Non-docker mac-based? Raspi? TI-82?

Edit: Locally-run, non-web service recs please!

If it’s local clients only and no port forwarding on your router, I would go with the Docker container on the NAS. At least to get started.

Awesome, and thank you. Reading up on it now

Okay, some success!
1) I got a (non-docker) MQTT host running on my Synology NAS (Mosquitto 1.4.14-9 from Synology Community)

It works- I set up an ESP8266 that I can control from the command line as follows:

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(base) $ mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.1.38 -p 1883 -t "esp/test" -m "#on" -u USERNAME -P PWD
(base) $ mosquitto_pub -h 192.168.1.38 -p 1883 -t "esp/test" -m "#off" -u USERNAME -P PWD


Question now, does the MQTT plugin also serve as a broker? It looks like I don't need a broker runing on my NAS if I use that.

It looks like I need MQTT Plugin running to use the Shims plugin. Thanks so much, as always.

Edit: Nevermind, I think...

I installed MQTT Plugin and pointed it to my server, and it's broadcasting and receiving messages... it's pretty awesome! I suppose Shims handles purely device creation based on broadcasts from here? This is really big, thank you.

I searched for a topic like this, and hoped an answer would be waiting for me.

I don't have a NAS, but I do have multiple Macs and one Linux box running Elementary OS that serves as a Plex server and runs a limping install of ZoneMinder that I'm not really using.

If I wanted to start messing with MQTT, what would you recommend?

https://mosquitto.org

https://snapcraft.io/install/mosquitto/elementary

Thanks!

@Different Computers

I don’t remember the steps I took, but I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I hot basic functionality. The command line tools work well for testing.