Bridge Openhab to HA

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@psyciknz

With mqtt v2 I believe you can doing it by publishing commands

Marketplace MQTT Event Bus

Update: Complete rewrite to use the rule templates published to the Marketplace. There is no need to code this or copy/paste code to make this work. There is a Remote openHAB binding which replaces this capability in most cases. See openhab-addons/bundles/org.openhab.binding.remoteopenhab at main · openhab/openhab-addons · GitHub . However there may be use cases where MQTT is preferred, such as integration with a non-openHAB service. Introduction What’s an Event Bus? There are times when one…

This shows how to set up an MQTT event bus using the 2.5 binding using both Rules DSL or Scripted Automation.

The MQTT binding also supports automatic discovery of devices that follow the HA MQTT standard, though I don’t know if that is of any help here.

To the rest, I share a lot of your opinions. I have the same opinion for those who use Node Red instead of the Rules engine and Node Red is even part of openHABian. But everyone has their own requirements and needs. If running OH and HA solves this user’s needs, I don’t think it is our place to withhold help on the OH side at least. The OP is not unique in running both.