Hi!
I’m considering creating a Lovelace dashboard for my Homey.
Is MQTT Hub a necessity, or a “nice to have”?
What would be the alternative for getting a device on a dashboard?
I’m mostly interested in door/window status (Aqara) and thermostats/lights etc. It’s not critical to be able to change anything from the dashboard, it’s 90% meant as an overview, but of course it would be nice to just set temperature for thermostats, enable “high” setting on ventilation etc.
Yes, MQTT Hub & MQTT Client on Homey, and MQTT Broker on Homey, or HA, or Synology NAS, or even (not preferrable) a cloud service f.i.
I just made a Dutch step-by-step manual by the way, maybe it is of any use with https://translate.google.com/.
I’ve only used MQTT broker and client directly, that’s why I’m asking. But it seems like MQTT Hub/Gateway removes the hassle with having to create a flow for every MQTT signal you might want to send out, and maybe more so the syncing of Homey and HA which could be a lot of flows to get working.
Can’t wait to finally get my Homey Pro 2023 now and get this all set up.
Hello,
after upgrade to early 23 version all MQTT devices are unavailable. Seems, that it’s just a issue with devices, because hub is correctly publishing messages and also updating values (via /set message).
Hello @HarriedeGroot can you please check it - seems MQTT devices are not working at all on Early 2023 version. This is quite important feature I used. My homey is currently quite useless for me
Looks like the MQTT app is not started fully - this would be my first guess from the screenshot you posted. Maybe something else but this would be my initial investigation: why is the app not started…
on Errors and Warnings level - no log info,
on Debug level only messages from sensors and some startup messages when restarted app - no error or indication why it’s not running.
No info about those devices or why I cannot create new MQTT devices…