Does not start with MQTT enable - please help

[Vinswede]

I ran the setup according to [https://www.thedigitalpictureframe.com/how-to-build-a-gorgeous-digital-photo-frame-with-a-raspberry-pi-based-on-2023-bookworm/] on RPi4 and it works great :)

However when I enable MQTT then it just loads to a black screen with the cursor. If I disable MQTT then it works again.

Here is config

mqtt:
use_mqtt: True # default=False. Set True true, to enable mqtt
server: 192.168.68.172 # No defaults for server
port: 1883 # default=8883 for tls, 1883 else (tls must be "" then !!!!!)
login: "mosquitto" # your mqtt user
password: "pi" # password for mqtt user
tls: "" # filename including path to your ca.crt. If not used, must be set to "" !!!!
device_id: "picframe" # default="picframe" unique id of device. change if there is more than one PictureFrame
device_url: "" # if use_http==True, set url to picframe config page. Must be a valid url, or "" otherwise home assistant runs in an error.

Am I doing something wrong in the config?

(I've setup the Mosquitto server as an addon in Home assistant. I'm able to connect using the details above in MQTT explorer.)

[rowantree]

Running into the same issue. Clearly looks like mqtt is not configured properly.
If you are running picframe as a service you can see the latest log output by executing
sudo systemctl status picframe.service
I can see that i'm getting an error message and picframe is shutting down.

[Vinswede]

@rowantree issue seems to be a problem with latest paho mqtt version 2
tried installing older version (sudo pip3 install paho-mqtt-1.6.1) and now works