Unfortunately my DS218 does not support Docker - some other way how to set MQTT and Home Assistant on Synology???
Thanks in advance for support and Happy New year 
@HarriedeGroot I have everything set up and working as intended, but I do have two questions which maybe has more to do with HA rather than Homey, but I need to make sure nothing in this integration is conflicting with HA. Hope you have some input.
- I am trying to get a sensor card in HA to react to a subscribed mqtt topic that is not a part of the homey integration. For testing purposes, I have created a virtual button in Homey that publishes a value to a topic. It works well behind the scenes. According to documentation, I should enter some lines on config.yaml with the topic subscribed.
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: âhomey/testâ
How do I turn this to an entity so that I can make a sensor card in HA that reports the value from my virtual device. The reason Iâm asking here is that when I look in HA/configurations/integrations/Mqtt (in the UI) I see the homey mqtt devices as icons and the heading âMQTT: configuration.yamlâ. However, I donât see any mention of the mqtt devices from homey in the actual config.yaml file. This is probably completely normal but Iâm wondering if there could be some sort of conflict. Getting a sensor card to react to a published topic should be straight forward but I donât know where to go next.
- I have a Rituals perfume genie which is working in HA for the on/off topic. The âfillâ value sensor is however publishing STRING values (â50-60%â). If I get the above working in question 1, do you know if I can get a HA card to show string values from a mqtt topic?
Hope I make some sort of sense. These questions are probably best asked in a HA forum but itâs worth a shot!
EDIT: scratch question #1. By the power of Sleep the device entity magically showed up this morning after HA/MQTT Broker chewed on in during the night. Very strange but oh well. Iâm happy now! Question #2 still stands. Thanks!
EDIT 2: So it seems a sensor entity have no problem in displaying string values! I have no more questions but I leave my post here anyway since there could be others who are interested in the potential of Homey/HA/MQTT
Can this also be two way? That from HA i can enable certain switches in Homey?
Yes, that is exactly what you can do with this
Tried that but if I enable a device in HA it doesnât switch in Homey?
What kind of device are you trying to control? Did you try to restart the MQTT client and MQTT hub app on Homey? Do you have autodiscovery and birth/last will messages enabled both Homey and HA?
Where do you do that, been looking for that to enable?
Thanks in advance
This actually makes MQTT hub on your Homey to resend device states on reboot of HA, so always up to date 
HmmmmmâŚneed new glasses, have been looking and looking and missed it.
Thanks 
OK, I tried everything but donât get it to work, probably something stupid from my side 
But I created a small video, so maybe someone can help me here?
https://dmertens.stackstorage.com/s/IWeaZQlHDgQxud4
Thanks in advance!
Do you follow the same installation steps in this guide to get devices from HA into Homey?
And are there different settings that has to be made to get it the other way around?
What solved it for me is:
1.Go to MQTT Hub
2. Set COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL to Custom
3. Enable Include class
4. Disable Include zone
5. Normalize
I think the last part is the giving the problem. Iâve noticed that the device.id gets screwed-up and is like switch.on whilst it only should be switch. Or simplified, the status of the device must not be in the device ID.
Perhaps this helps someone, Iâve just started setting it up.
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Iâm relative new MQTT so I have a basis question
I would like to see my Homey device in Node-Red using MQTT
In MQTT in node I can only see Homey status information but no devices
How can I make my Homey device visible in Node -Red
Setup
Homey running MQTT Cient, and MQTT cient/
On synolgy NAS I have installed Mosquitto.
On Raspberry Pi : Node-Red
Did you install the hub app on homey?
Hi Sven, It seems to work now
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Hi Community,
Iâm sorry if my question seems redundant but I canât seem to find (I searched the different MQTT topics) a solution that works for me. My problem is that I can not control my Homey devices from HA. Their status updates in HA when triggered from Homey, but not the other way around. I read that others had the same problem and it seems the problem disappeared magically when rebooting Homey or restarting MQTT Hub/Client. But I had no luck with that.
My setup:
Homey v4.1.0
MQTT Hub v2.1.9
MQTT Client 2.2.3
MQTT Broker (Docker on Synology): mosquitto v 1.6.9
HA (Docker on Synology) v 0.108.5
When I trigger a device from HA, I can see in MQTT explorer a set topic changing to true, but onoff state stays to False.
Anyone can point me to a possible solution?
Thanks!
Well⌠the magic happened here too. After going crazy for a week, reconfiguring, reinstalling, restarting etc. in all kinds of orders, suddenly now it works. The only thing that worries me, is that I absolutely donât know why.
I should have posted my previous message earlier 
The magical Community-genie made my wish come true. 
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Great tutorial!
I managed to get it working and in HA I see all my Homey devices. Unfortunately they show no valuesâŚ
This is what appears in HA:
I bet it is something small that needs to be done, but I am stuck.
Can any kind soul please help?
Thanks!
Youâre looking at the entity editor, which isnât the place where entity values are shown. For that, you need to open the Overview page.
