Another #IoT journey report.
My broker was no more compatible to the bridge at home so continuous reconnects every second was the result.
Another problem is that I serve non-encrypted mqtt over 8883 what confuses the #mosquitto clients.
(8883 is the default for TLS encrypted connections)
Changing that port is not an option as enough devices in the #hackerspace and at friends homes depend on it.
I only depend on mosquitto_sub and pub for live demos and debugging, so the charmful workaround was to register another listener for the default port like
`listener 1883`
`protocol mqtt`
Now I am happy again, my bridge works and all my privacy is gone again.
What this story solved:
I once improved a dollhouse with an old house gong ding-dong bell. Then I added an #Arduino to trigger it with my not-so-smart doorbell of my real home. It was awesome. But some weeks ago it stopped working, so the solution was, to fix something in a remote datacenter in another country on a virtual server. To make a ding go dong.
That does not seem right.
Thanks for reading :)
#eof
Last thing to say is: In the recent years I began to call #IoT the term #YoT , because you should really ask the question if it is worth to connect all the things