[TUTORIAL] Setting up MQTT on Homey for configuring Home Assistant for dashboard purposes

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I installed MQTT client in HA using the integrations section. But there you can’t set special options.
I uninstalled the Mqtt integration and included the settings in configuration.yaml:

# MQTT Broker
mqtt:
  broker: 192.168.178.237
  port: 1883
  client_id: home-assistant
  username: !secret mqttbroker_user
  password: !secret mqttbroker_password
  discovery: true
  discovery_prefix: homeassistant
  birth_message:
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'online'
  will_message:
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'offline'

Without the online/offline messages HA won’t get messages after a restarz of HA service.
With this way of integration I no such problems again.