Recently I was upgrading packages on my Synology NAS, with one of those packages being SynoCommunity Mosquitto Broker. Shortly after the upgrade, I noticed the MQTT based devices in my Home Assistant server went off-line. It was then I realised that the upgrade to 2.0.15 had reset the MQTT username and password. When I checked out my previous post on how to add a user and password to the SynoCommunity Mosquitto Broker, I noted that a few things have changed slightly with this latest version, so I will document the current process below.
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