[V4] zigbee2mqtt on a remote host

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Hello,

I am trying to set up gladys, but I want to use zigbee2mqtt on separate hardware.
I have not been able to find the devices connected to zigbee2mqtt by adding the devices via the mqtt interface.
Do I need to set a base_topic (in the zigbee2mqtt config) in particular?

Thanks in advance

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Hello,
I thought I saw that in the current state, it is not possible to connect to mqtt zigbee without having the USB configuration working on Gladys.
But the evolution is possible.

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… Thanks for the reply

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Hello @amaelFr :slight_smile:

The MQTT integration does not use the same MQTT broker as the Zigbee2mqtt integration (by choice), so indeed it cannot work as is!

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Ok, thank you very much, what a shame… it could have been interesting to have multiple zigbee2mqtt hosts

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The subject is not abandoned :wink:
Not planned either :confused:

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@amaelFr However, I’m convinced that you can set up a custom installation with Node-RED on a host that bridges between the remote Zigbee2mqtt and Gladys :slight_smile:

On your host:

  • Mosquitto (MQTT broker)
  • Node-RED connected simultaneously to the local MQTT broker and the remote Gladys MQTT broker
  • Zigbee2mqtt connected to the local MQTT broker