Shelly1 and mqtt: problems, how to create a working switch

[KevinI (Kevin)]

Hi,

Also in case your interested the following topic and utility is most useful for looking at the MQTT traffic, I just used it to see the announce message from one of my Shelly1’s which will help me creat a general announce item (hopefully)

MQTT Exploration App

Get a quick overview of your MQTT topics and integrate new devices more quickly. Features Visualize topics and topic activity Delete retained topics Search/filter topics Delete topics recursively Diff view of current and previous received messages Publish topics Plot numeric topics Retain a history of each topic Dark/Light Themes … See Changelog to see all features There are releases for Windows, Linux and Mac. I hope you enjoy it and I would love some feedback.

K