Having found a lot of conflicting information

[Arpagor (Jean Jacques LARIVIERE)]

After having sought information on the syntax of the MQTT configuration I submit my research and results to you
with the correlation between the text mode declaration in Thing-items-sitemap and the visualization in PaperUI
Items:

String String_Rhasspy_Intent      "label Rhasspy Intent"      {channel="mqtt:topic:Rhasspy:Rhasspy_thing:String_Rhasspy_Intent" }
String String_Rhasspy_Nlu         "label Rhasspy nlu"         {channel="mqtt:topic:Rhasspy:Rhasspy_thing:String_Rhasspy_Nlu"}

sitemap rhasspy label= "Rhasspy"
{
    Frame label= "Rhasspy" {
        Text   item= String_Rhasspy_Intent
        Text   item= String_Rhasspy_Nlu 
    }
}

Things:
Bridge mqtt:broker:Rhasspy “Rhasspy” @ “MQTT” [

host=“192.168.0.25”,
port=1883,
secure=false,
clientID=“default”,
username="",
password=""
]

{
    Thing topic Rhasspy_thing "Rhasspy" @ "MQTT"  {
        Channels: 
              Type string : String_Rhasspy_Nlu "Str Rhasspy NLU"       [ stateTopic="hermes/nlu/intentNotRecognized/#" ]   //hermes/nlu/intentNotRecognized           
              Type string : String_Rhasspy_Intent "Str Rhasspy INTENT" [ stateTopic="hermes/intent/#" ]                 
    }
}

and display in PAPERUI with relations:
Sitemap:

Hopefully it will help because I wasted a lot of time finding the right syntax

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

@Arpagor

Hopefully it will help because I wasted a lot of time finding the right syntax

I you had configured your channels in the paperUI directly instead of a things file you would never have had to worry about the syntax and got it right the first time.

[mstormi (Markus Storm)]

@vzorglub

I you had configured your channels in the paperUI directly instead of a things file you would never have had to worry about the syntax and got it right the first time.

True, the mistake was in going with a things file in the first place which is not recommended (and documented as such).
Then again, I just tried looking this up in the docs and found there’s no (complete, understandable) syntax definition with the binding docs and NO examples. @Confectrician I’d call that a docs bugs, wdyt ?

[Arpagor (Jean Jacques LARIVIERE)]

In fact it is simply because I like to get to the bottom of things and understand very exactly what I do, actually I first used the declaration under PaperUI but I did not understand the information given and often very different in the various subject posted and therefore it is for the sake of clarity that I studied the real syntax and the relationship between manual declaration and PaperUI and I posted it to benefit others

[Confectrician (Jerome Luckenbach)]

Mqtt Binding Docs were written with UI focus iirc. The binding author doesn’t use textual configuration at all as far as I know.
But I have not looked into them for now.

Of course any clarification in the binding docs can be helpful.
The correct place for this would be the add-ons repository.

[H102 (CM6.5 H102)]

@Arpagor Thanks for posting this.

I agree with the others about using PaperUI to avoid mistakes but I’m bookmarking this topic so I can reference it for all the hardheaded files only users.

This should help to reduce the amount of post needed to get someone up and running.

Thanks again.