# Beebotte. Nothing showing on channel or dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** mqtt\
**Created:** [24 October 2022 09:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476 "2022-10-24T09:03:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 19:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/21 "2022-10-24T19:50:49Z")

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@Richard238 Do you need to display the information n the BeeBotte dashboard? NR has it's own dashboard.

If you do need to display it on the BeeBtte dashboard you should see if you can get some help from them.

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**Author:** ![jbudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f8ce5/32.png) [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 19:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/22 "2022-10-24T19:56:16Z")

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+1 for using the Node-red dashboard, which you are already familiar with.

You might consider a local database rather than the smallish number of retained data at Beebotte.  
A lot of people favour Influxdb. I use Mariadb (= MySQL).

And why are you using a cloud based MQTT broker anyway - is the source of the data outside of your own LAN?

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**Author:** ![Richard238](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/richard238/32/48307_2.png) [@Richard238](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Richard238)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 20:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/23 "2022-10-24T20:29:29Z")

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Beebotte's support seems limited, I've emailed them, not holding out much hope.

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**Author:** ![Richard238](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/richard238/32/48307_2.png) [@Richard238](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Richard238)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 20:30 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/24 "2022-10-24T20:30:55Z")

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No, it was there so I thought I'd try and use it. How hard can it be??!!

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**Author:** ![zenofmud](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/zenofmud/32/316_2.png) [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 20:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/25 "2022-10-24T20:37:12Z")

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> [@Richard238](#):
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> How hard can it be??!!

Well after playing with it, all I can reply to your statement is "hahahahahahahaha!!!" (big grin)

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**Author:** ![Richard238](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/richard238/32/48307_2.png) [@Richard238](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Richard238)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 20:44 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/26 "2022-10-24T20:44:36Z")

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I have sensors feeding a MySQL db, in turn feeding Grafana.

My Greenhouse

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/e/7/e7149f08290fc2e1619a4f0684fc71bd5a9d1203.png)

Some Pi stats

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/b/8/b8ba208f74cf5435f2568799f61aacc1b7c43bba.png)

Garage door height. the sensor is OK, but sadly the Pi died ☹

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/8/1/81a044d283ec9bebee9d6e356168dc5a6fda1b01.png)

MQTT seems popular so I thought, let's give that a go, using a cloud broker to save some Pi overhead.

I think I'll stick with MySQL & Grafana

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 21:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/27 "2022-10-24T21:08:27Z")

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> [@Richard238](#):
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> MQTT seems popular so I thought, let's give that a go, using a cloud broker to save some Pi overhead.

Mosquitto is very lightweight. Unless you are trying to send many hundreds of MQTT messages/second you will not notice the additional resources. So unless you need to use a cloud MQTT broker in order to get access from multiple systems across the internet then don't bother.

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**Author:** ![Richard238](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/richard238/32/48307_2.png) [@Richard238](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Richard238)\
**Post date:** [24 October 2022 21:16 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/28 "2022-10-24T21:16:07Z")

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> [@Colin](#):
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> So unless you need to use a cloud MQTT broker in order to get access from multiple systems across the internet then don't bother.

Bother I won't!. Off to swot up on Mosquitto

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**Author:** ![ptnodered](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@ptnodered](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ptnodered)\
**Post date:** [1 November 2022 02:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/29 "2022-11-01T02:18:54Z")

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I Tested Beebotte mqtt and found that data should be in format as given in their documentation.

- In order to persist a message sent using MQTT, the message payload MUST respect the following JSON format: `{"data": object, "write": true}`.
- As stated in the MQTT - Beebotte Bridge section earlier, MQTT messages are `private` by default. In order to publish a public message the message payload MUST respect the following format: `{"data": object, "ispublic": true}`

Please refer the documentation on below link:-  
[https://beebotte.com/docs/mqtt#bridge](https://beebotte.com/docs/mqtt#bridge)

Regards,  
Prasoon Tewari

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/d/cd5e0b3123b479df023cc96f08bd4640ffc24092.png)  
 ![Beebotte_dashboard](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/1/413aaf7f95e93cc6abf162a36969b02b78c2fe06.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [31 December 2022 02:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/beebotte-nothing-showing-on-channel-or-dashboard/69476/30 "2022-12-31T02:19:37Z")

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