Owntracks external MQTT | Home Assistant | Page 1

hollow widget Jan 13, 2026, 2:57 PM

Greetings all, I am trying to set up owntracks with my home assistant. I already have owntracks recorder and a mosquitto set up on a different machine, I am just trying to set up owntracks to use that mqtt server rather than anything internal. Is this possible? I noted that own tracks does not have a configuration for an mqtt server address or a username and password. I already have an mqtt server set up on my home assistant box for zigbee2mqtt, should I create another mqtt integration or is this something that is not possible?

Thank you!

scarlet pendant Jan 13, 2026, 4:21 PM

I think owntracks recorder makes use of an MQTT broker. If you can configure that to use an mqtt bridge to forward them to your local broker it should work.

http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mosquitto-bridge-configuration/

steve

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