Trying to get meshtastic setup on some “test” hardware before I invest in a larger setup for a base station and I’m trying to understand if I’m experiencing PEBKAC with MQTT, or a permissions issue.
My base station unit (old Lilygo Lora) is on the Wifi and connected to MQTT (mqtt.meshtastic.org) - that appears to be working as I show up on some of the various maps. But my mobile device (T-Beam) does not. In an attempt to diagnose the issue I don’t want to spam my home territory with messages (msh/US/bayarea), so I tried to use a private channel with MQTT up/downlink enabled. That should be showing up on MQTT as msh/US/bayarea/2/c/MyTestMesh/ based on my testing using a local MQTT server. However it does not.
Perhaps I’m just making a mistake so I changed my mqtt root topic to msh/US/MyCitybayarea and… I also don’t see that appear on the official meshtastic server (Watching via MQTT Explorer).
So am I just being a stupid newb, or is there no permissions to create new topics? Which would totally make sense - I just can’t find that documented anywhere.