Publish msg on the fly

I have an http listener (a hacked version of your HTTPD2 plugin) that listens for incoming messages and changes a device state on or off. . I then want to use that state change as a trigger. For now, I am happy to have two triggers (on and off) for each state I want to monitor. I may try to generalize it a bit in the future. So far, that works fine. I can trigger on the state change and write to the log. However, I what I really want to do is to publish an mqtt message. The messages I want to send are already saved as the on off msgs in an mqtt Shim device, so I can just copy them from there.

All that is lacking is a scriptable feature of the mqtt connector to send an arbitrary msg. Is there a way to do that now? Is this even of interest to anyone else?

The connector has a publish message action that can be called from a script.

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    <Action id="publish" deviceFilter="self">
        <Name>Publish Message</Name>
        <CallbackMethod>publishMessageAction</CallbackMethod>
        <ConfigUI>
            <Field id="topic" type="textfield">
                <Label>Topic:</Label>
            </Field>
            <Field id="payload" type="textfield">
                <Label>Payload:
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
               
                </Label>
            </Field>
           <Field id="qos" type="menu" defaultValue="0">
              <Label>QoS Level:</Label>
              <List>
                 <Option value="0">0</Option>
                 <Option value="1">1</Option>
                 <Option value="2">2</Option>
              </List>
            <Field id="qosNote" type="label" fontSize="small" fontColor="darkgray">
                <Label>QoS is ignored for messages to DXL brokers.</Label>
            </Field>
           </Field>
           <Field id="retain" type="menu" defaultValue="0">
              <Label>Retain:</Label>
              <List>
                 <Option value="0">False</Option>
                 <Option value="1">True</Option>
              </List>
           </Field>
            <Field id="retainNote" type="label" fontSize="small" fontColor="darkgray">
                <Label>Retain is ignored for messages to DXL brokers.</Label>
            </Field>
            <Field id="simpleSeparator2" type="separator"/>
            <Field id="messageNote" type="label" fontSize="small" fontColor="darkgray">
                <Label>Variable and Device State Substitution is enabled for topic and playload fields. Use the format %%v:12345%% for variables and %%d:12345:someStateId%% for device states.</Label>
            </Field>
        </ConfigUI>
    </Action>


The connector has a publish message action that can be called from a script.
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Thanks. I think that will do the trick.

The connector has a publish message action that can be called from a script.
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Thanks. I think that will do the trick.

Well, I probably responded too fast. Could you post a short example of how that might be called from an embedded script. Thanks.

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props = {   
    'topic': 'foo/bar/test',
    'payload': 'RAW DATA',
    'qos': '0' ,
    'retain': '0'
}

mqttPlugin = indigo.server.getPlugin("com.flyingdiver.indigoplugin.mqtt")
if mqttPlugin.isEnabled():
    mqttPlugin.executeAction("publish", deviceId=1269849630, props=props)
   
   

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props = {   
    'topic': 'foo/bar/test',
    'payload': 'RAW DATA',
    'qos': '0' ,
    'retain': '0'
}
mqttPlugin = indigo.server.getPlugin("com.flyingdiver.indigoplugin.mqtt")
if mqttPlugin.isEnabled():
    mqttPlugin.executeAction("publish", deviceId=1269849630, props=props)   
 

Perfect, got it working. Thanks!