Reef Angel Forum

I'm trying to bring my systems under the Home Assistant umbrella. First, let me say I am really new at this still.

I was messing around with the MQTT feed from cloud.reefangel.com using port 1883 and my username/password for the forum. It connected (success!) but even in MQTT Explorer it shows no activity, so I am not sure how I'm supposed to find the topics. Any help is appreciated.

On our cloud server, you are authorized to publish and subscribe to topics that start with your forum username.
RA publishes and subscribes to topics username/in and username/out

thanks for the reply Roberto. Any idea why even when listening to topic "wolfpack" or "wolfpack" or "wolfpack/out" or "wolfpack/in" I see nothing coming through? I also checked MQTT Explorer and see no topic structure after connecting.

I am definitely new at this, but seems to me no data is flowing... though it must be as I am sending commands from the app and seeing the data regarding temperature and outlets.

You have to make sure that when you connect, you send the username and password. Unauthenticated users don't have authorization to publish/subscribe to any channels.

I setup the connection with username and password already. I assume that's what you mean by login? Or am I supposed to send a command after establishing the initial connect?

Have you tried using mosquitto?
https://mosquitto.org/
mosquitto_sub -v -t "username/in" -h cloud.reefangel.com -u username -P password
Replace username and passwprd with your own.