Good Morning and Good News!!!
Trial and error proved helpful.
I have now found out why the Indigo MQTT published device was not being matched by the xAPPO/MQTT App Discovery Into HE. It's most likely a bug I intend to report to Kevin (the author) after I clear out the last issue I'm facing.
The xAPPO/MQTT App and driver now **automatically** create a virtual device in Hubitat Elevation, so I'm sure I can put to rest my previous doubts wether it would even be capable of doing what I intend it to do. The following screen grabs show my current status.
But not everything is roses yet: Even though the xAPPO/MQTT App and Driver now catch the Indigo MQTT published device, it still cannot control it, that is, I cannot turn the discovered dimmer on/off, nor set it's brightnessLevel from the HE side be reflected on Indigo. The other way around it works as expected, meaning that I can turn on/off, set the brightnessLevel from Indigo and it correctly shows on the Virtual Device properties pages as well as on HE Dashboard.
It's probably something I need to change in the topic structure, but I don't intend to loose my Sunday on it, as Yesterday was a real marathon trying to make this thing work.
Now that I'm on the right track, I'm going to spend most of the day enjoying my swimming pool as it's Summer here and the sky is clear.
Screen grab from Hubitat Elevation MQTT App:
- Device discovered !!!!
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Screen grab from MQTT Explorer, depicting the topic structure as published by Joe's Indigo MQTT plugin:
- Topic Structure as published by Indigo MQTT Triggers using Joe's plugin
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Screen grab from HE devices, showing the virtual device auto-created by xAPPO/MQTT App and Driver below the iPhone device previously existing in HE:
- Virtual Device in HE
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Screen grab from HE devices, showing the virtual device auto-created by xAPPO/MQTT App and Driver (1 of 3):
- Virtual Device auto-created by the xAPPO/MQTT App and driver (1 of 3)
- Screen Shot 2022-01-23 at 10.01.59.png (90.76 KiB) Viewed 1825 times
Screen grab from HE devices, showing the virtual device auto-created by xAPPO/MQTT App and Driver (2 of 3):
- device auto-created (2 of 3)
- Screen Shot 2022-01-23 at 10.02.13.png (93.77 KiB) Viewed 1825 times
Screen grab from HE devices, showing the virtual device auto-created by xAPPO/MQTT App and Driver (3 of 3):
- device auto-created (3 of 3)
- Screen Shot 2022-01-23 at 10.02.22.png (116.74 KiB) Viewed 1825 times