Mosquitto "Connection refused" but it seems I have 2 versions installed?

[borpin (Brian Orpin)]

@BrunoAlves

As for the command, yes that’s what I’m using (of course with adapted username/password)
I even tried to activate anonymous access, then omitting the user/pass parts and still I get “Error: connection refused”.
After I start mosquitto from the command line, I can access either with user/password or anonymous…

Looks like there is something wrong with the user/password. If you cannot get the mosquitto_sub command to generate data. However, I am bemused, as the Inputs to EmonCMS use those credentials (unless you changed them in settings.php).

I’ll point you to this post - check the password file. You may need to recreate the password as suggested.

Can only connect with MQTT default credentials

OK, so just for anyone else who is reading this, I think I’ve got it sussed. Create a new password file using sudo mosquitto_passwd -c /etc/mosquitto/passwd emonpi Then use the default password emonpimqtt2016 If you want to add new users, use the same command but without the -c so it doesn’t create a new file each time. Once you have added all the new users you want to, you need to restart the Mosquitto service for it to pickup the changes. sudo mosquitto service stop sudo mosquitto servic…