#port_forwarding

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Connecting the Home Server to the Outside World

Changing router settings to allow and forward inbound MQTT messages to the Mosquitto broker:

Enable port forwarding in the firewall settings of your router for TCP port 1883 (the MQTT default port) and TCP port 8883 (for MQTT over SSH).

Test the connection:

Subscribe on internal IP: mosquitto_sub -h my_local_ip -p 1883 -t my_topic

Publish through external IP: mosquitto_pub -h my_external_ip -p 1883 -m 'Hello World' -t my_topic