I can’t find the mqttitude binding on a recent 0H2.5 snapshot and so I was wondering if it is possible to process OwnTracks MQTT messages without requiring the mqttitude binding.
I’m running a mosquitto broker and a recent OH2.5 snapshot on a RPi3+ running openhabian.
The MQTT broker is configured in a file as a Thing.
Now I want to process messages issued by my iPhone (through MQTT) in OH2…
I wouldn’t say you are out of luck. I would say you are in luck because if you are using myopenhab.org, you no longer need to expose an MQTT port to the internet, reducing your exposure to attack.
I wasted about an hour discovering this… more, because I went to all the trouble of setting up my MQTT broker to authenticate and accept connections from the outside world before I went to set up the OwnTracks binding, only to discover it wasn’t there any more. Any chance this information could be added to the documentation for the OwnTracks binding?
If I understand this correctly, location is provided directly into OpenHAB by HTTP. I can configure my phone with HTTP instead of MQTT but does OpenHAB also share location back to other family member’s phones the way MQTT does?
My situation is I want the sharing functionality and would also consume the location data in OpenHAB if possible but if the latter precludes the former then I’ll stick with MQTT.