# MQTT - geeks-r-us mqtt-panel

**URL:** <https://community.grafana.com/t/mqtt-geeks-r-us-mqtt-panel/90522>\
**Category:** Dashboards\
**Created:** [June 28, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/mqtt-geeks-r-us-mqtt-panel/90522 "2023-06-28T13:04:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![johans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/johans/32/23878_2.png) [@johans](https://community.grafana.com/u/johans)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/mqtt-geeks-r-us-mqtt-panel/90522/1 "2023-06-28T13:04:09Z")

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Running:  
Raspberry PI4 - linux\_arm64 - Grafana V10.0

Mosquito broker on Oraclecloud, The necessary firewall ports are open as I can send to it via a node-red instance (deployed on the Raspberry PI4) MQTT messages. These I receive successful.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/8/3/835920ae6f80d7837376ae7eb1da4cb42830b11c.png)

Trying to use geeks-r-us mqtt-panel in Grafana to send via MQTT to Mosquito MQTT broker data that is on Oraclecloud.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/5/9/59bb3f324a2de43d4150cc349e7f6ce91ff83425.png)

After I “Apply” the panel, the send is still greyed out.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/original/3X/2/1/218b1fb5c5af60229d7022513533fccaeab4db1b.png)

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![grant2](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/grant2/32/42281_2.png) [@grant2](https://community.grafana.com/u/grant2)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/mqtt-geeks-r-us-mqtt-panel/90522/2 "2023-06-29T09:46:20Z")

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I would not recommend that plugin. It’s about 2.5 years since the last update.

Have you tried [this plugin](https://github.com/grafana/mqtt-datasource) instead?

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**Author:** ![johans](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/johans/32/23878_2.png) [@johans](https://community.grafana.com/u/johans)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2023, 10:02am UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/mqtt-geeks-r-us-mqtt-panel/90522/3 "2023-06-29T10:02:43Z")

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Thank you Grant

I am not looking to listen to MQTT stream, want to send from Grafana via MQTT.

The data I want to sent is Boolean and Integers.

The MQTT data source plugin you are referring to are also not very stable. (but that is another topic)