After a lot of reading, and a lot of trying and trying, I have come to the conclusion that I need some help.
For years I have been using the old MQTT addon, but moving to a new installation on a new server, I have decided to also update it all to work on the newest addons.
I started by reading this, https://www.openhab.org/blog/2018-12-16-mqtt-arrives-in-the-modern-openhab-2-x-architecture.html and thought I also did what it said, but I couldn’t get it to work. Then I started searching on the forum, and also found some topics there, but still no luck getting it to work, so clearly there is something I am not understanding properly.
I am trying to do the configuration via text files, instead of Paper UI.
Here is what I did
broker.thing
mqtt:broker:selina_mqtt [ host="192.168.1.30", secure=false ]
mqtt.thing
Bridge mqtt:broker:selina_mqtt [ host="192.168.1.30", secure=false ]
{
Thing mqtt:topic:aircondition {
Channels:
Type number : water_level "AC water level" [ stateTopic="/AC/water_level"]
}
}
airconditon.items
Number ac_water_level "Condensation water [%.0f %%]" <sewerage> (sensors) {channel="mqtt:topic:aircondition:water_level"}
Log files
==> openhab.log <==
2019-05-19 09:09:39.924 [INFO ] [ebuilder.internal.HomeBuilderServlet] - Started Home Builder at /homebuilder
2019-05-19 09:09:39.944 [INFO ] [panel.internal.HABPanelDashboardTile] - Started HABPanel at /habpanel
2019-05-19 09:09:40.012 [INFO ] [.core.internal.i18n.I18nProviderImpl] - Time zone set to 'Europe/Copenhagen'.
2019-05-19 09:09:40.017 [INFO ] [.core.internal.i18n.I18nProviderImpl] - Locale set to 'da_DK'.
2019-05-19 09:09:41.782 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'aircondition.items'
2019-05-19 09:09:42.538 [INFO ] [thome.model.lsp.internal.ModelServer] - Started Language Server Protocol (LSP) service on port 5007
2019-05-19 09:09:42.650 [INFO ] [el.core.internal.ModelRepositoryImpl] - Loading model 'nygade.sitemap'
2019-05-19 09:09:42.902 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started Dashboard at http://192.168.1.35:8080
2019-05-19 09:09:42.903 [INFO ] [.dashboard.internal.DashboardService] - Started Dashboard at https://192.168.1.35:8443
2019-05-19 09:09:42.976 [INFO ] [arthome.ui.paper.internal.PaperUIApp] - Started Paper UI at /paperui
==> events.log <==
2019-05-19 09:09:42.728 [.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'ac_water_level-mqtt:topic:aircondition:water_level' has been added.
2019-05-19 09:09:42.732 [.ItemChannelLinkAddedEvent] - Link 'ac_water_level-mqtt:topic:6e94fcaf:ac_water_level' has been added.
So I am not getting any errors, but it isn’t working either. And there are two links being added, and I am not sure why the second one is there.This text will be hidden
And what I did wrong, was to follow what the instructions said.