Hi, i would like to share instructions of how to setup MQTT on Homey to make your devices visible in Home Assistant with a Synology NAS. Thanks a lot to @HarriedeGroot for creating the MQTT Hub, @scanno for the MQTT Client (and Broker, which unfortunately will not be included in this tutorial since …

[image] HarriedeGroot: The latest version (install via CLI) retains these messages on the broker Great! I would like to try that. This one, I bet: GitHub - harriedegroot/nl.hdg.mqtt: MQTT Hub/Gateway for Athom Homey Thanks! UPDATE Installed version 2.1.9 via CLI. After a restart of the MQ…

Restart mqtt client and Hub (in this order).

[image] HarriedeGroot: Restart mqtt client and Hub (in this order). Still no luck (I saw another sensor updating, but that was not connected via MQTT). No worries. Ik love what is working already! Thanks @HarriedeGroot ! PS I do get a notification in the Homey App that the broker when off…

And have you configured last will and birth messages for MQTT on Home Assistant?

Would you please explain how to do that…I only set that up in Homey. Should I do that somewhere in H.A. too? (so, I guess I haven’t )

[image] MQTT Birth and Last will Instructions on how to setup MQTT birth and last will messages within Home Assistant. I think your problem will be solved then…

@PascalB WORKING! Perhaps this addition should be added to the open post. I did read up, but missed this essential part. This is the mqtt section in my configuration.yaml file: mqtt: broker: “xxx.xxx.x.xxx:1883” username: !secret mqtt_username password: !secret mqtt_password discovery: true …

I have worked on this for a couple of days now, tried 3 different brokers++++ Watched mqtt traffic with mqtt explorer, mqttlens and so on. But nothing seemed to work. I figured i could make Home Assistant connect for me, and that worked. But same problem there, only able to watch the changes. B…

For privacy reasons. Google really requires you to share a lot of data, and requires a always-on internet connection. That’s probably why.

HA installed on Synology Docker. MQTT broker, client and hub on Homey. At first, I got all sensors from Homey in HA. It’s showed values (temperatures), but did not update (last update 40 min) and also some strange readings. eg. outside temperature 9.9 degC, while current temp is 24.5. Now I added …

[TUTORIAL] Setting up MQTT on Homey for configuring Home Assistant for dashboard purposes

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PascalB May 12, 2020, 5:35pm 136

I think your problem will be solved then…

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