Hi all! I have a HA server in my LAN and all my IoT devices are in a separate VLAN. In this way to insert all the devices I have to configure them all manually using MQTT commands. Since I’m fed up about this method, I’ve added a second NIC to the HA VM (Proxmox) that is in the IoT VLAN. When I enter the terminal I see that HA has 2 IPs, one for each network and I thought that all the Shelly (they use the same MQTT broker that uses HA, they’re not configured for cloud connection and ColoT is enabled) devices would appear in HA, but…they don’t. How do you think that I can troubleshoot this problem?

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    3 days ago

    Hi, yes, I have a Mosquitto container in another machine.

    • HA can connect to the MQTT broker and I already have other MQTT devices working in HA, there’s also a Shelly RGBW2 that I can turn on and off via MQTT
    • In the MQTT broker I see plenty of data from all the MQTT devices
    • I thought that HA would recognize Shelly devices by their messages. I’ll give a look at the MQTT discovery, thanks.

    I’ve mentioned ColoT because I’ve installed the Shelly integration from HASS (sorry, I’ve forgot to mention it, I’ll add it), but even there there are no devices discovered. I’m using it with mcast, I’ll try putting the HA IP. Thanks for the input, I’ll do some tests.