Unable to receive published messages from MiSTer on zaparoo/events topic

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Source: Zaparoo / #support

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CS (@caspericus) - 2026-01-24 01:37 UTC

I have a new MQTT question, I have /zaparoo/tokens working perfectly, Now I want the to read Published Messages from MiSTer / Zaparoo // zaparoo/events of what game & system are being played, I am not receiving this infomration in my broker with current setup.

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wizzo (@.wizzo) - 2026-01-22 04:46 UTC

/media/fat/zaparoo

[josephdyland]

I have been testing with a External MQTT Broker, I successfully receive MQTT messages with [[readers.connect]] . I also wish for Zaparoo to send MQTT messages to the same external Broker, and have tested with [[service.publishers.mqtt]] .

With file /media/fat/zaparoo/config.toml

[[service.publishers.mqtt]]
enabled = true
broker = "mqtt://192.168.1.72:1883"
topic = "zaparoo/events"
filter = [
    "media.started",
    "media.stopped",
    "tokens.added"
]

and file /media/fat/zaparoo/auth.toml

[creds."mqtt://192.168.1.72:1883"]
username = "mister"
password = "mister"

I Watch my external MQTT broker and do not see any MQTT connection.

add MQTT Receiving /media/fat/zaparoo/config.toml

[[readers.connect]]
driver = "mqtt"
path = "mqtt://192.168.1.72:1883/zaparoo/tokens"

and this successful log connection log.
2026-01-30 20:12:59: New client connected from 192.168.1.54:58108 as zaparoo-mqtt-e5c404dd (p2, c1, k30, u'mister').

I have also troubleshoot by using MQTT Explorer and I do not see any zaparoo/events.