Hello all, I re-discovered Owntracks last night, which is an amazing little app that allows you to set up geofencing, location awareness, and can even report your velocity, steps (iOS), current phone battery level, and altitude. I spent the best part of today trying to set up my own public-facing MQ…

[image] hazymat: But I must say I have found it almost impossible to get an MQTT broker working with TLS. Has anyone managed to do this? I've read countless guides repeatedly and all have failed me. There was an extensive thread on this a few months back. I assume you have a domain name you c…

[image] hazymat: Taking a different tack, I have done what that guide linked above suggests and changed the line to listener 8883 (i.e. removed the hostname) and this now prevents me from connecting locally over 1883 Just on this point, it appears that if you specify a listener then you also…

[image] hazymat: If anyone has a better suggestion of where to start (i.e. another guide to the one I link to below) then I'm all ears. I tried also working to the Owntracks guide but got nowhere. I am not familiar with Owntracks but the guide your referred says: HTTP mode If you don't wan…

Thanks for the comments so far; @TotallyInformation Yes I have dynamic dns set up which provides me with a domain name. The MQTT broker is accessible from the outside world, it's just I cannot secure it with TLS (so passwords and data being sent in plan text so I can't continue to use it like that)…

I explicitly set the port number for the default listener, but it didn't make a difference. So in summary, everything works from the outside world, connections over 1883 work internally and 8883 works externally, but as soon as I add the certificate paths to the config file, everything stops workin…

I stopped using Owntrack with Mqtt, it wasn't reliable, missed a lot of points. Using it now with HTTP and that works perfect. My phone is with the help of OpenVpn always in my home network, so no port forwarding etc. For easy private network creation have a look at ZeroTierOne . If you prever to…

Thanks, interesting that you prefer to use http. I have openVPN as I use Untangle as my gateway which includes this. How are you connected permanently (is this on iPhone?) For me I have to go into settings and connect but would be interested to hear how to enforce or ensure permanent connection? Thi…

I'm using Android. In the OpenVpn app you can set the option's reconnect on reboot and Seamless Tunnel, this quanteed that Vpn is running. With the help of Tasker OpenVpn will be disabled when I'm at home and enable when leaving the home wifi network. Sorry for the offtopic.....

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