Hi,
I have a hacked Sonoff on an external network which I need to connect to my MQTT broker on my emonpi on my internal network but I can’t get it to connect.
I’ve setup dyndns as I don’t have a static IP, as well as port forwarding to the emonpi IP on port 1883 but on the client I always get the error
02:21:14 MQTT: Connect FAILED to #####.dyndns.org:1883, rc -2. Retry in 10 seconds
I know the forwarding works as the sonoff will connect to a broker I have on another Pi if I redirect the forwarding.
I’ve gone through these steps to make sure its not an authentication issue
sudo nano /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf
Set persistence false and add the lines:
allow_anonymous false
password_file /etc/mosquitto/passwd
Create a password file for MQTT user emonpi with:
sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/passwd emonpi
Enter password emonpimqtt2016 (default)
I’ve also tried allowing anonymous but still no change.
I can only think there is some other security preventing the remote device connected but I don’t know enough about the config to be able to find it.
I should add that I can connect to the broker on the emonpi via my openhab installation on a different pi using the default credentials and also using MQTT.fx on my PC which is happy to connect with or without credentials.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Cheers