The main problems I’m facing with Homey are: There is no ‘customizable dashboard’ (yet). I’d like to create some more advanced flows (with PID controllers, multiple in- & outputs, share (sub-)flows, inject script, etc.), without losing the overview (all in one screen). The ease of integrating Home…

It did not start to work when I installed it. I’m trying to investigate myself as well and might have something but I need to check it myself first.

One possible problem I seem to have is that I cannot change the topic in MQTT hub to upper case. In this scenario we need it to say “gBridge/u123” but it always defaults to “gbridge/u123” for me whatever I do. I can change the topic to say something different though (i.e. gbridge/u1234) but it will …

@Camelen And if you turn off topic normalization (under custom settings?)

Same as @Wout_F in the other thread. It started to work. Also have the problem that I have created all devices in the gBridge connection with normalized names which means that everything needs to be adjusted. It’s not that big of a deal and totally possible but I’d prefer if I somehow can choose t…

Going to make the topic lowercase only when Homie Convention is selected and I won’t touch the topic case if Custom protocol is selected.

What’s the fun of discussing this problem in 2 topics? And then refer to the other topic? This is becoming very messy!

It is indeed a bit messy and not very obvious what fits in which topic. When suggesting changes for an app it seems obvious to do that in the topic that is dedicated to the app in question. But in this case we found this “shortcoming” so to speak of the app while trying to connect to a 3rd party se…

Going to make the topic lowercase only when Homie Convention is selected and I won’t touch the topic case if Custom protocol is selected. Isn’t this the exact way it is handled now?

No, the full topic is being normalized when normalization is turned on, because it’s part of the Homie Convention. This is changed with the introduction of the normalization option in the app settings. Going to disable this for Custom topic only (won’t touch the formatting of a custom topic).

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Wout_F March 2, 2019, 9:16pm 432

I came to the same conclusion in the other thread (Guide to Connecting gBridge to Homey for Google Assistant). Thanks @HarriedeGroot, that sounds like the perfect solution.

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