MQTT Anonymous access

[turboc1208]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Problem - while not ideal, on my home network my MQTT server uses anonymous access and NetAlertX requires the username and password be filled in

Describe the solution you'd like

While not consistent with best practices I would greatly appreciate it if the Username and password could be optional so thata anonymous access will work.

Describe alternatives you've considered

1. changing all of the other systems I have that use MQTT to provide the username and password.
2. I have tried setting up the username and password under mosquitto but it fails when restarting it from docker and does not generate any logs.
3. modifying the mqtt.py application file to comment out the username and password checks in the file. But it's a read only volume.

Anything else?

nothing else

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[turboc1208]

I found a way around it. please don't "fix" it. If you pass in a blank " " for both username and passord, NetAlertx is happy because the strings aren't null and the mqtt server either doesn't care since I have annoomous access turned on, or it does a trim on the strings and they go in as nulls which mqtt server is happy with.

So in short put in a space for both mqtt username and mqtt password and you should be fine.

you can close this now.
Thanks

[jokob-sk]

Releasing -> Closing