diff --git a/app/index.tsx b/app/index.tsx
index 2b8e6cd..2ec112f 100644
--- a/app/index.tsx
+++ b/app/index.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import { AppContainer } from "react-hot-loader";
 
 import App from "@app/components/App";
 import { ProvideState, State } from "@app/state";
+import log, { setLogger } from "@common/log";
+
+setLogger(log.child({ name: "sprinklers3/app" }));
 
 const state = new State();
 state.start();
diff --git a/app/state/index.ts b/app/state/index.ts
index ad62236..77e9893 100644
--- a/app/state/index.ts
+++ b/app/state/index.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export interface IState {
 }
 
 export class State implements IState {
-    sprinklersApi: ISprinklersApi = new MqttApiClient();
+    sprinklersApi: ISprinklersApi = new MqttApiClient(`ws://${location.hostname}:1884`);
     uiStore = new UiStore();
 
     constructor() {
diff --git a/common/logger.ts b/common/logger.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c1deb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/common/logger.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import * as pino from "pino";
+
+let logger: pino.Logger = pino();
+
+export function setLogger(newLogger: pino.Logger) {
+    logger = newLogger;
+}
+
+export default logger;
diff --git a/common/mqtt.ts b/common/mqtt.ts
index a7d597b..1404082 100644
--- a/common/mqtt.ts
+++ b/common/mqtt.ts
@@ -11,16 +11,17 @@ import {
     SectionRunner,
     SprinklersDevice,
     TimeOfDay,
-} from "@common/sprinklers";
-import { checkedIndexOf } from "@common/utils";
+} from "./sprinklers";
+import { checkedIndexOf } from "./utils";
 
 export class MqttApiClient implements ISprinklersApi {
+    readonly mqttUri: string;
     client: mqtt.Client;
     connected: boolean;
     devices: { [prefix: string]: MqttSprinklersDevice } = {};
 
-    constructor() {
-        // (this.client as any).trace = (m => console.log(m));
+    constructor(mqttUri: string) {
+        this.mqttUri = mqttUri;
     }
 
     private static newClientId() {
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ export class MqttApiClient implements ISprinklersApi {
     start() {
         const clientId = MqttApiClient.newClientId();
         console.log("connecting to mqtt with client id %s", clientId);
-        this.client = mqtt.connect(`ws://${location.hostname}:1884`, {
+        this.client = mqtt.connect(this.mqttUri, {
             clientId,
         });
         this.client.on("message", this.onMessageArrived.bind(this));
diff --git a/server/app/serveApp.ts b/server/app/serveApp.ts
index 88398ba..d5a07c1 100644
--- a/server/app/serveApp.ts
+++ b/server/app/serveApp.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import * as webpack from "webpack";
 import * as webpackMiddleware from "webpack-dev-middleware";
 import * as webpackHotMiddleware from "webpack-hot-middleware";
 
-import logger from "../log";
+import logger from "../../common/logger";
 const log = logger.child({ source: "webpack" });
 
 /* tslint:disable-next-line:no-var-requires */
diff --git a/server/index.ts b/server/index.ts
index 8cd7954..ad239b0 100644
--- a/server/index.ts
+++ b/server/index.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 import { Server } from "http";
+import log, { setLogger } from "../common/logger";
 import app from "./app";
-import log from "./log";
 
-import * as mqtt from "mqtt";
+setLogger(log.child({ name: "sprinklers3/server" }));
 
-const mqttClient = mqtt.connect("mqtt://localhost:1882");
-mqttClient.on("connect", () => {
-    log.info("mqtt connected");
-});
-mqttClient.on("error", (err) => {
-    log.error("mqtt error: ", err);
-});
+import * as mqtt from "../common/mqtt";
+
+const mqttClient = new mqtt.MqttApiClient("mqtt://localhost:1882");
+
+mqttClient.start();
 
 const server = new Server(app);
 
diff --git a/server/log.ts b/server/log.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 233d383..0000000
--- a/server/log.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-import * as pino from "pino";
-
-const log = pino();
-
-export default log;
diff --git a/tslint.json b/tslint.json
index 389bdbf..1c09b44 100644
--- a/tslint.json
+++ b/tslint.json
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
   "jsRules": {},
   "rules": {
     "no-console": [
-      false
+      true
     ],
     "max-classes-per-file": [
       false