EmonBase - no inputs - problem with MQTT?

[Jon (Jon Murphy)]

if you did a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (or apt-get dist-upgrade) you may have a new version of MQTT and may have this issue.

MQTT Log files

I have just set up a Raspberry Pi with EmonCMS (mostly) following the instructions on building the SD card and I ran into some troubles with Mosquitto not starting (even though the service status was running…). It took a bit of hear pulling but turned out to be that I needed to create /var/log/mosquitto and set the owner as with the other services (in rc.local) So my question is why doe the emonSD image not need this change, or to phrase it another way, what step did i miss ;-)? FYI the versio…

 

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Mosquitto not starting after emonSD update & upgrade

Hello, I have purchased the pre-loaded SD card for my RPi 3, a RFM69, and a emonTx. The emonTx CTs are all hooked up and it is plugged in. I have followed all of the steps and trouble shooting tips, but it appears that my emonBase (updated today) is not connecting to the emonTx: tail /var/log/emoncms.log 2016-09-21 01:40:40.000|WARN|phpmqtt_input.php|Not connected, retrying connection sudo service emonhub status ● emonhub.service - LSB: Start/stop emonHub Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/emonh…