Hi all,
In my new home I’m trying to create some home automation. I have different parts connecting to my home network. And I want to tie it all together with openHAB. My IKEA Tradfri and Philips HUE work almost out of the box. Now I want to tie in my MQTT light controller (made it myself).
The MQTT light controller consists of a Raspberry Pi on a relay board with 8 relays. And I wrote some code to publish its capabilities on the MQTT broker with the HOMIE convention. Or at least that was my plan. But after a few days trying some parts frustrate me. The light controller is discovered. But most of its features are not. And I am at a loss what I am doing wrong. Hopefully someone can help.
The controller is discovered and shows the following information.
But looking at the MQTT broker (Mosquitto) I would think there would be a lot more. Also non of the, what I would think would be switches, seem to be working. And keep having the Dummy type.
[root@beest ~]# mosquitto_sub -v -t homie/#
homie/GroundFloorControl/$homie 3.0.1
homie/GroundFloorControl/$name GroundFloorControl
homie/GroundFloorControl/$fw/name Raspi Relayboard
homie/GroundFloorControl/$fw/version 0.1
homie/GroundFloorControl/$nodes light1,light2,light3,light4,light5,light6,light7,light8
homie/GroundFloorControl/$implementation RaspberryPi
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats uptime,signal,cputemp,cpuload,freeheap,supply
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/interval 60
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/uptime 9583
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/signal 0
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/cputemp 44.008
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/cpuload 0.00 0.00 0.00 1/100 1919
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/freeheap 798036
homie/GroundFloorControl/$stats/supply 0
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/$name Light1
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light1/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/$name Light2
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light2/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/$name Light3
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light3/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/$name Light4
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light4/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/$name Light5
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light5/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/$name Light6
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light6/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/$name Light7
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light7/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/$name Light8
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/$type light
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/$properties power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/power false
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/power/$name Power
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/power/$settable true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/power/$retained true
homie/GroundFloorControl/light8/power/$datatype boolean
homie/GroundFloorControl/$state ready
Can someone point me in the direction of a solution? Thanks in advance, Peter