# MQTT with The Things Industries

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-with-the-things-industries/82713>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [December 5, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-with-the-things-industries/82713 "2023-12-05T12:10:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Andreas\_Sveinsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Andreas\_Sveinsen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Andreas_Sveinsen)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-with-the-things-industries/82713/1 "2023-12-05T12:10:23Z")

</div>

Hello.  
I need to connect to a external MQTT Broker driven by The Things Network.  
Anyone who have done this and can lead me in the right direction?

I have credentilals to connect via other software, in my case MQTTBox. But I can not establish a connection between Ignition and TheThingsIndustries.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-with-the-things-industries/82713/2 "2023-12-05T13:20:08Z")

</div>

I'm not familiar with them, but if they're using SSL, make sure your server URL starts with `ssl://` and not `tcp://` which is for non-SSL connections. That's something easy to miss.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mqtt-with-the-things-industries/82713/3 "2023-12-05T15:05:26Z")

</div>

See [this guidance](https://docs.chariot.io/display/CLD80/Do+I+need+to+do+anything+special+to+connect+to+my+TTN+%28www.thethingsnetwork.org%29+broker) on Cirrus Link's docs page. Due to how the topics are laid out (specifically regarding the `@` character), you have to leverage the [String Conversion](https://docs.chariot.io/display/CLD80/ME%3A+Configuration#ME:Configuration-NamespacesDefaultStringConversion) feature to translate what ends up as Ignition Tags via the Custom Namespace. I use this approach with success to hook my home Maker instance to TTN MQTT broker to bring in some of my LoRaWAN sensors.