Onion Omega "Single Command" with Losant refused

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Hello,
My Onion Omega2+ threw an error when trying to connect to Losant using the Single Command connection. I’m using this tutorial from Onion’s 2-Bullet Tuesday newsletter which explains how to setup Losant and Omega to connect.

In the middle of the tutorial, there is a one-line script that will complete the setup and connect the Omega to the Losant application that was previously set up. When i entered the script into my Omega: mosquitto_sub -t losant/[YOUR-DEVICE-ID]/command, it threw an error: Error: Connection refused.

In a different thread, I was told that I needed to enter my Device ID, Access Key, and Access Secret, which I did do as instructed by the tutorial:

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How do I fix this error?
Thank You!

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Hi @Microbob,

The screenshot you have doesn’t seem to have the error you mentioned. Could you post a shot with the error message?

When you try to connect, have your Communication Log open. Do you see any errors come up in there?

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Hello,
Sorry for not clarifying that the screenshot I provided was what the tutorial said should happen, and it didn’t for me. Here’s a screenshot of what happens when I do it:

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Hope this helps!

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Thanks for the screenshot!

So, have you looked at the communication log? Do you see anything in there?

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I’m actually not 100% sure where the communication log is, but the device, debug, and data tabs all look the same before and after running mosquitto_sub…

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If you go to the main application page, the communication log will be here:

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Also, here is the documentation: Communication Log

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Hey I am also following the same tutorial from Onion Omega.

I have entered the device id, access id and access key.

However after entering the subscribe to command. Losant is still saying

Awaiting first connection to Losant ...

@anaptfox

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One thing to note.

mosquitto_pub takes a host argument, and if it’s missing then it uses localhost. You examples do not include -h which implies you would be talking to a local broker (possibly setup as a bridge to losant).

If that is the case, is the mosquitto local broker running.

If not then the connection refused will be the result.

If you are not running a local broker then you need to supply a host.
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mosquitto_sub -t losant/[YOUR-DEVICE-ID]/command

This is what the tutorial FROM omega guide side
https://onion.io/2bt-single-command-losantomega/

@Tim_Hoffman @anaptfox Does Losant have a public host for demoing purpose? If you can provide a solution that would be fantastic. Thanks for the helpm

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Yep

If you look at the shell script from in the guide https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OnionIoT/Losant-Setup-Script/master/losant_setup.sh you will see it does in fact setup a local broker.
And the command you are issuing connects to localhost.

In your case I suggest the local broker isn’t starting.

Check that this command succeeded

/etc/init.d/mosquitto restart

a quick
ps auxw | grep mosquitto

will tell you if the local mosquitto broker is running.

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