# MQTT offline broker

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** mqtt\
**Created:** [16 May 2022 16:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703 "2022-05-16T16:32:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![sn19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sn19](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sn19)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2022 16:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/1 "2022-05-16T16:32:18Z")

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Hello All. I am trying to setup and use an offline MQTT broker. Any suggestions with this? Please let me know about it and thank you.

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**Author:** ![krambriw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/krambriw/32/5429_2.png) [@krambriw](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/krambriw)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2022 16:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/2 "2022-05-16T16:36:01Z")

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Assume you mean local?? Online locally on your network  
Check out mosquitto

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**Author:** ![sn19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sn19](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sn19)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2022 16:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/3 "2022-05-16T16:37:07Z")

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Yes a local one which won't use the TCP or connect to the internet. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![hardillb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hardillb/32/12373_2.png) [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2022 16:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/4 "2022-05-16T16:40:21Z")

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They will all use a TCP connection, even if just to localhost/127.0.0.1/::1

But as already suggested, running mosquitto on the same machine as Node-RED is probably the easiest

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**Author:** ![sn19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sn19](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sn19)\
**Post date:** [16 May 2022 16:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/5 "2022-05-16T16:41:16Z")

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Thank you and yes I am checking out the mosquitto broker.

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**Author:** ![sn19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@sn19](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/sn19)\
**Post date:** [19 May 2022 17:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/6 "2022-05-19T17:53:04Z")

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thank you very much for you suggestion I did work on the mosquitto broker and it is now workling fine as intended.

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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:** [2 June 2022 17:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mqtt-offline-broker/62703/7 "2022-06-02T17:53:44Z")

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