# \[TUTORIAL\] Setting up MQTT on Homey for configuring Home Assistant for dashboard purposes **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Created:** [March 21, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880 "2019-03-21T11:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Lichtenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lichtenberg/32/36370_2.png) [@Lichtenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Lichtenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/201 "2021-12-05T09:38:48Z")
I’m also having this problem hassio/broadlink/homey -did you get it working? ---
**Author:** ![9ixxerlee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/9ixxerlee/32/34726_2.png) [@9ixxerlee](https://community.homey.app/u/9ixxerlee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/202 "2021-12-06T03:28:19Z")
I only managed to get it work on wall switches via HA\>Homey\>Broadlink. Just cannot figure out how to get virtual switch or button from Homey to trigger HA send command. ---
**Author:** ![Lichtenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lichtenberg/32/36370_2.png) [@Lichtenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Lichtenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 8:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/203 "2021-12-06T08:00:52Z")
I havent played around with compounds yet but sensors and binary sensors works great. > **[GitHub - rogro82/io.homeassistant: Home-assistant integration for Homey](https://github.com/rogro82/io.homeassistant)** > > Home-assistant integration for Homey. Contribute to rogro82/io.homeassistant development by creating an account on GitHub. Its also available on HCS. ---
**Author:** ![9ixxerlee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/9ixxerlee/32/34726_2.png) [@9ixxerlee](https://community.homey.app/u/9ixxerlee)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/204 "2021-12-06T08:10:10Z")
Will have a look at it. Will be great if virtual device from HA can be detected by homey. Since it does not work now for opposite. Lol By the way what is HCS? Sorry very noob on this ---
**Author:** ![Martijn\_Hoogenbosch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/martijn_hoogenbosch/32/10647_2.png) [@Martijn\_Hoogenbosch](https://community.homey.app/u/Martijn_Hoogenbosch)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/205 "2021-12-06T08:10:43Z")
This app is great indeed! It lacks support for blinds, but you can work around it by creating scenes in HA and adding them to Homey, with virtual devices and some flows you can create something which works. ---
**Author:** ![Lichtenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/lichtenberg/32/36370_2.png) [@Lichtenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/Lichtenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2021, 8:42am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/206 "2021-12-06T08:42:58Z")
HCS [https://store.homey.community/](https://store.homey.community/) ---
**Author:** ![vaderag](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vaderag/32/150_2.png) [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/207 "2022-08-11T14:47:27Z")
Hi Everyone! New to Home Assistant and trying to reveal a few devices from Homey that are not supported due to my lack of hardware I’ve already got a MQTT broker as I’m using Zigbee2MQTT on home assistant, and I don’t want to set all this up separately in a NAS. I’ve followed the steps in the first post (thanks to @Peter_Kawa for pointing me here) but I’m a little stuck - my devices all seem to have come through (great!) but, they **ALL** seem to have come through - I now have 90 odd devices in MQTT showing in HA I went into the devices tab and unselected the majority of them, but they all still seem to be there. Is there any way to ‘refresh’ so that they aren’t all there? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/208 "2022-08-11T15:10:48Z")
Thx. I’m afraid you’ll need to remove the devices yourself in HA, if you unselected a number of devices in MQTT hub _after_ you already broadcasted them ---
**Author:** ![vaderag](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vaderag/32/150_2.png) [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/209 "2022-08-11T15:14:44Z")
Ah \*\*\*\* Don’t suppose there is any way to do that programatically? Remove anything with Manufacturer for example? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/210 "2022-08-11T15:21:31Z")
I don’t know. I did it by sorting the Entities list on “Integration” Scroll until you see MQTT. Then tick the boxes of the unwanted entities and hit “Disable/Hide/Remove selected” that appears at the top of the page. It’s done pretty fast. ![Screenshot from 2022-08-11 17-18-58](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/c/d/cd4325643df450ecd93b699e91a6308194c7e4cf.png) ---
**Author:** ![vaderag](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/vaderag/32/150_2.png) [@vaderag](https://community.homey.app/u/vaderag)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/211 "2022-08-11T15:23:28Z")
Oh wow - that’s way quicker than going into each device! ---
**Author:** ![Totland](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/totland/32/40957_2.png) [@Totland](https://community.homey.app/u/Totland)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/212 "2023-01-07T16:48:14Z")
I know it’s been years since you’ve posted this, but THANK YOU! I’ve spent days trying to figure this out. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/213 "2023-01-12T10:16:45Z")
A big Thank you to you too, and @RoelG ! While I was curious what you tried to figure out, I read Roel’s proposed settings and applied them, and surprise, my random unresponsive Homey devices on HA keep working a lot better, there’s almost no unresponsive MQTT devices any longer! Also HA reboots much less. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_Cobben](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/paul_cobben/32/3513_2.png) [@Paul\_Cobben](https://community.homey.app/u/Paul_Cobben)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/216 "2023-01-24T21:30:27Z")
Hi Ronny, Did exactly what you mentioned, but in MQTT Explorer, my home assistant stay offline My broker is the Mosquitto Broker installed on a Synology DS220 NAS in the same network and IP range as the Homey. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/3X/1/0/10a28c9c298940860777481e74398ed868f83201.png) ---
**Author:** ![NiklasLovefall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niklaslovefall/32/36149_2.png) [@NiklasLovefall](https://community.homey.app/u/NiklasLovefall)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/217 "2023-03-01T20:13:37Z")
Hey, is this thread still alive? My HA connects to HomeyMQTT and configuration is ok but MQTT in HA doesn’t find any devices or entities. Do I need to put something in configuration.yaml? I thought HA would automatically find devices. /Niklas ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/218 "2023-03-01T22:07:37Z")
Not much info here… When > [@NiklasLovefall](#): > > configuration is ok HA loads your Homey devices. So probably there is something not ok. Did you install MQTT Client as well? Where is MQTT Broker running, on Homey or HA? What does [MQTT Explorer](https://mqtt-explorer.com/) show? ---
**Author:** ![NiklasLovefall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niklaslovefall/32/36149_2.png) [@NiklasLovefall](https://community.homey.app/u/NiklasLovefall)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/219 "2023-03-01T22:21:08Z")
Sorry for the lack of info, I don’t know why but now it works… Will never more touch it. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 12:13am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/220 "2023-03-02T00:13:55Z")
Oh haha, okay then. Enjoy 👍 ---
**Author:** ![NiklasLovefall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/niklaslovefall/32/36149_2.png) [@NiklasLovefall](https://community.homey.app/u/NiklasLovefall)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/221 "2023-03-02T18:23:11Z")
I have added devices in my Homey Pro but MQTT in HA doesn’t pick up them. I have broadcasted from MQTT hub in Homey. In HA I have tried to restart, reload the MQTT integration. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Gerrit\_Fikse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/gerrit_fikse/32/16406_2.png) [@Gerrit\_Fikse](https://community.homey.app/u/Gerrit_Fikse)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 10:03am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880/222 "2023-03-03T10:03:28Z")
What I did, is download the portable app MQTT-Explorer. This will help you to see what the broker receives and what it sends out. Also there you can try manual the commands to see if a device or your flow reacts to topics. For me this has been a big help in debugging. [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880.md?page=10) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-setting-up-mqtt-on-homey-for-configuring-home-assistant-for-dashboard-purposes/10880.md?page=12)