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Using Industrial Edge as an MQTT Client

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Good morning! I need to create a way to use a Siemens Industrial Edge IPC as an MQTT client, reading from another MQTT broker (Mosquitto). I tried using the Data Bus, but I couldn’t find a way to point it to an external broker. I would like to understand whether there is any documentation available that explains how to perform this configuration, or even whether this configuration is possible.

asked 2026-02-20

Fellipes Magalhães

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Reemali Patil · Answer 1 · 2026-02-23

Hi,

From what we’ve seen, the Industrial Edge Data Bus is meant for internal communication between Edge apps and doesn’t support directly connecting to an external MQTT broker like Mosquitto.

There’s no configuration option to point it to an external broker. The usual workaround is to deploy a custom Docker-based Edge app that acts as an MQTT client, connects to the external broker, and (if needed) republishes data to the Data Bus.

Hope that helps!