Can the MQTT binding handle two instances of clients?

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Does anyone know if the 1.x MQTT binding can handle two instances of MQTT clients?
I am running OpenHab 1.8 still.

I am using the public MQTT-broker at cloudmqtt.com and sensor values arrive from two different physical locations in two separate channels with different login credentials. So ideally I would like to define two MQTT clients like this in openhab.cfg

# URL to the MQTT broker, e.g. tcp://localhost:1883 or ssl://localhost:8883
mqtt:ib9openhab1.url=tcp://m21.cloudmqtt.com:21250
mqtt:ib9openhab2.url=tcp://m21.cloudmqtt.com:21150

# Optional. Client id (max 23 chars) to use when connecting to the broker.
# If not provided a default one is generated.
mqtt:ib9openhab1.clientId=xxxxxxx
mqtt:ib9openhab2.clientId=yyyyyyy

# Optional. User id to authenticate with the broker.
mqtt:ib9openhab1.user=zzzzzzzzz
mqtt:ib9openhab2.user=wwwwww

# Optional. Password to authenticate with the broker.
mqtt:ib9openhab.pwd=nnnnnnnnnn
mqtt:ib9openhab.pwd=mmmmmm

I could then have the various items get values from either of the two channels. Would that be possible?

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Short answer: Yes :smile:

I have a very similiar setup on my home installation, one internal mosquitto instance, another for a very specific IoT device that only talks to their own MQTT server…

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@hakan Thank you for the quick and positive reply! I tried it this morning and it works perfectly! Now I can handle measurements from two MQTT brokers in OpenHab.