How to use the Aedes MQTT broker?

[Steve-Mcl]

Are you familiar with how MQTT is supposed to work? The broker "just stands alone" because it is a broker. MQTT publishers and subscribers dont need to "wire" up to it.

Did you search forum for Aedes? Here is an actual demo in the forum...

Linking 2 or more instances on a local network

It would have been easier and more future proofing to read up on MQTT (IMO). Heres the 30sec intro... MQTT is a Client Server publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol. It is light weight, open, simple, and designed so as to be easy to implement" An MQTT client (node-red / IoT sensor / whatever) publishes to an MQTT broker a topic and payload are sent in each publish a topic is a string e.g. "house/bedroom/light" or "machine/1/motor/speed" a payload is anything you want (boolean tr…