Unable to start docker ring-mqtt fails with "ring-mqtt Unable to connect to MQTT broker connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:1883"

[mwatz1234]

First time trying to setup ring-mqtt.
I have mqtt setup with mosquitto and home assistant mqtt plugin was setup to to the mqtt.
Since HA is able to be configured to talk the mqtt I belive the permissions is working (not sure if only 1 instance of a user could talk to mqtt at a time)

This is the error message I am getting is below. I am not sure if it thinks the username/password is word, or something else is not configured correctly.

ring-mqtt | [s6-init] making user provided files available at /var/run/s6/etc...exited 0.
ring-mqtt | [s6-init] ensuring user provided files have correct perms...exited 0.
ring-mqtt | [fix-attrs.d] applying ownership & permissions fixes...
ring-mqtt | [fix-attrs.d] done.
ring-mqtt | [cont-init.d] executing container initialization scripts...
ring-mqtt | [cont-init.d] ring-mqtt.sh: executing...
ring-mqtt | -------------------------------------------------------
ring-mqtt | | Ring-MQTT with Video Streaming |
ring-mqtt | | Docker Edition |
ring-mqtt | | |
ring-mqtt | | Report issues at: |
ring-mqtt | | https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt |
ring-mqtt | -------------------------------------------------------
ring-mqtt | [cont-init.d] ring-mqtt.sh: exited 0.
ring-mqtt | [cont-init.d] done.
ring-mqtt | [services.d] starting services
ring-mqtt | [services.d] done.
ring-mqtt | -------------------------------------------------------
ring-mqtt | ring-mqtt.js version: 5.0.1
ring-mqtt | Node version v16.14.2
ring-mqtt | NPM version 8.1.3
ring-mqtt | git version 2.34.2
ring-mqtt | -------------------------------------------------------
ring-mqtt | Running ring-mqtt...
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:08.069Z ring-mqtt Detected runmode: docker
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:08.074Z ring-mqtt Configuration file: /data/config.json
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:08.078Z ring-mqtt MQTT URL: mqtt://mosquitto:********@localhost:1883
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:11.558Z ring-mqtt Reading latest data from state file: /data/ring-state.json
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:11.722Z ring-mqtt Attempting connection to Ring API using saved refresh token...
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:12.486Z ring-mqtt Successfully established connection to Ring API using saved token
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:13.676Z ring-mqtt Successfully saved updated state file: /data/ring-state.json
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:14.486Z ring-mqtt Attempting connection to MQTT broker...
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:14.641Z ring-mqtt Unable to connect to MQTT broker connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:1883
ring-mqtt | 2022-05-22T19:16:15.727Z ring-mqtt Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker...

my docker-compose is setup with

version: '3.2'
services:
  watchtower:
    container_name: watchtower
    image: containrrr/watchtower:latest
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
    environment:
      - WATCHTOWER_CLEANUP=true
      - WATCHTOWER_LABEL_ENABLE=true
      - WATCHTOWER_INCLUDE_RESTARTING=true
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
  homeassistant:
    container_name: homeassistant
    image: "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable"
    volumes:
      - /home/pi/home-assistant/config:/config
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    devices:
      - /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    network_mode: host
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
    depends_on:
      - mosquitto
  mosquitto:
    container_name: mosquitto
    image: "eclipse-mosquitto:latest"
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 1883:1883
      - 9001:9001
    volumes:
      - /home/pi/mosquitto/config:/mosquitto/config:rw
      - /home/pi/mosquitto/log:/mosquitto/log
      - /home/pi/mosquitto/data/:/mosquitto/data
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"
  ring-mqtt:
    container_name: ring-mqtt
    image: tsightler/ring-mqtt:latest
    restart: "no"
    ports:
      - 8554:8554                      # Enable RTSP port for external media player access
    volumes:
      - /home/pi/ring-mqtt/data:/data           # Mapping of local folder to provide persistent storage
    logging:                           #limit logs to 10m and 3 files
      options:
        max-size: 10m
        max-file: "3"
    labels:
      - "com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true"

ring-mqtt config.json is setup as:

{
    "mqtt_url": "mqtt://username:password@localhost:1883",
    "mqtt_options": "",
    "livestream_user": "",
    "livestream_pass": "",
    "disarm_code": "",
    "enable_cameras": false,
    "enable_modes": false,
    "enable_panic": false,
    "hass_topic": "homeassistant/status",
    "ring_topic": "ring",
    "location_ids": [
        ""
    ]
}

the mosquitto.conf file is setup like:

persistence true
persistence_location /mosquitto/data/
log_dest file /mosquitto/log/mosquitto.log

listener 1883
## Authentication ##
allow_anonymous false
password_file /mosquitto/config/credentials

[tsightler]

"mqtt_url": "mqtt://username:password@localhost:1883",

You'll need to put your actual MQTT settings in here as this is unlikely to be correct. Certainly, when running the Docker version, the "localhost" portion can pretty much never be correct since localhost refers to the internal network of the container and there's no MQTT broker running inside the ring-mqtt container. You'll need to put the IP/hostname of whatever host is running your MQTT broker.

[mwatz1234]

that was it (ip address of the raspberry pi). Thanks again for the help.