[57North-Discuss] MQTT broker for doorbot

[Hibby]

There's MQTT via Home Assistant already, so that's at least something *in space*.

Would this be solved by a VPN or similar? We could tailnet the space! 

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  Dave Hibberd <hibby at debian.org>
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On Fri, 2 Oct 2026, at 9:48 AM, Robert McWilliam via Discuss wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> Doorbot<->hackhub comms currently uses free "serverless" MQTT broker 
> from HiveMQ. 
>
> HiveMQ are going to be switching off that service  at the end of 
> December. So we will need to migrate to something else before then if 
> we want the door to keep working. 
>
> I have been planning to move off this for a while (it wasn't great to 
> be using a broker that only I could access). Maybe having a deadline 
> will actually get me to do something. 
>
> Or does anyone else want to sort this out?
>
> Robert
>
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