Bridge Mosquitto mqtt to hivemq Intro How to bridge a local mosquitto mqtt broker to a free hivemq cloud bridge Debian installatie apt-get install mosquitto To install the package Change the mosquitto config file /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf connection cloudmqtt address <url>.hivemq.cloud:8883 topic # both 1 bridge_attempt_unsubscribe false bridge_protocol_version mqttv311 notifications false remote_username <hivemq_username> remote_password <hivemq_password> try_private false bridge_capath /etc/ssl/certs/ You can add authentication to start mosquitto.conf per_listener_settings true allow_anonymous false password_file /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.users And use the mosquitto_passwd command to create and add users to the file (it seems that you need to restart or reload mosquitto after changing password or adding users)