Switching on and off a relay as a beginner with mqtt

[vzorglub (Vincent Regaud)]

@JJdelfino

How do i know for example the path to write in the Items file ?

Items

@JJdelfino

First of all i am not quite sure how to make my esp 8286 communicate with my raspberry.

MQTT Tutorial for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP8266 - Bald Engineer

@JJdelfino

)I created a switch item but i don’t know the mqtt path.

It’s not called a path but a topic:
You create it yourself eg: House/LivingRoom/Switch

See:

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