diff --git a/docs/software/mqtt/index.mdx b/docs/software/mqtt/index.mdx index 4f240b4d..4ad2d550 100644 --- a/docs/software/mqtt/index.mdx +++ b/docs/software/mqtt/index.mdx @@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ sidebar_label: MQTT sidebar_position: 4 --- -## Bridging Networks over TCP +## Bridging networks over the internet -Connecting your mesh to the official Meshtastic MQTT broker. This makes your devices appear on the world map, and provides a limited copy of your mesh traffic, translated into JSON. +Meshtastic networks in different locations beyond the reach of LoRa can be easily bridged together using MQTT. The simplest option is to connect your mesh to the official Meshtastic MQTT broker. This makes your devices appear on the world map, and provides a copy of your mesh traffic, translated into JSON. All you have to do to join the public MQTT server is to Enable MQTT and set uplink and downlink on the channels that you want to share over MQTT. -Using a custom MQTT broker to bridge several mesh networks together, via the internet (or just a local IP network) +You can also share channel settings with a remote network and enable encryption for MQTT, encryption is off by default for MQTT. You can also specify your own private MQTT broker and specify authentication for that broker to bridge several mesh networks together, via the internet (or just a local IP network). + +You can find the settings available for MQTT [here](https://meshtastic.org/docs/settings/moduleconfig/mqtt). ## Software Integrations