An MQTT config example to Newbies from a Newbie...

[ppespepe]

Hi there,

I'm very new to Indigo and it took me a little while to learn to use the MQTT/Shims combo. If you are newbie and lazy to read like me, perhaps this example would help a little bit.

First, I'm using a version of BKHobby's Kube. It is based on the Kube 1 but using the boards of the Kube 2. here you can find some info if you want to give it a try: https://www.pcbway.com/project/sharepro ... Board.html & https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2539897 I think is a really cool project.

Anyway, I'm using this testbed with the BME680 and MH-Z19 sensors:

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Let's start from the beginning... the combo plugin combo I mentioned before is:

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Then:

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Can't put more than 10 attachments so I'll continue in another post.....

To be continued....

[ppespepe]

Continuing the previous post:

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And to be continued to Part III...

[ppespepe]

And third and last part:

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Hopefully this sill help someone!!!

Enjoy...

[mundmc]

We need a gigantic LIKE button.

Thank you for this! I got a couple more rudimentary ESP8266’s up witj MQTT Connector, but i got into the weeds with Shims. I very well may print this out on paper to guide me!

[FlyingDiver]

Very nice writeup. The only recommendation I would make at this point is that it's not necessary to list that many subscriptions. You could just subscribe to "home/#" and be done with it.

[cesarvog]

Many, many thanks for this tutorial. I'm totally new to MQTT and this will help a lot.

[cesarvog]

On a side note, can anyone care to clarify the meaning of the three "Match Type" choices ("Match", "Any", "End") in the "Topic Configuration Match" screen?

My understanding of the "Match" and "Any" is the former indicates the string you want to match to, while the latter acts as an anything goes (wildcard type of thing).

Joe has kindly helped me yesterday on the correct creation of a trigger. His suggestion used all three choices, but I'm still not quite sure about the meaning of the "End" choice...

TIA
Cesar

[FlyingDiver]

It's there to terminate the matching process. When developing the plugin, I found a few examples of devices that sent multiple topics, some of which were extended versions (more terms) then other ones. I needed a way to complete the match without looking at more terms. I can't recall the specific example right now.

[cesarvog]

Thanks Joe, always super fast on your replies.
Ah, so I figure that ALL triggers must include an End choice, correct?

[FlyingDiver]

I wouldn't say "must". It doesn't hurt to have it, and I usually include it when I do a trigger, but it's only really needed for those edge cases where you don't want to match on a topic that has more terms than the one you do want to match on. I wish I could remember what device I ran into that caused me to include it...

[cesarvog]

No need to search for that. I think your explanation above clarifies it perfectly.

I decided to ask because I have followed the Wiki Basic Setup Guide (https://github.com/FlyingDiver/Indigo-S ... asic-Setup) and found some minor inconsistencies between the screenshots there and the actual screen in the current incarnation of the plugins (which also means the "End" choice is never mentioned there)

I believe this exchange of posts between us may help other fellow users in the future, so it's nice to have it clarified.

Best regards,
Cesar

[FlyingDiver]

Yeah, those screen shots are from before I added the End term.

[DirkWe]

Fantastic, with your tutorial i made it in a few minutes and get all mey relevant values from my Photo-Voltaic into indigo ! Thanks from Germany
Dirk

[mundmc]

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[Seeker]

I am less than newbie on this. but this is helpful. still struggling to get started.

it does not seem to include setting up brew/mosquitto, but says enter the IP of your broker (mosquitto?) in config.

in the plugin configure broker, do i use the IP of my mac running indigo and mosquitto? i have tried that, but get failed to connect in indigo on that device. and i cannot connect from MQTT explorer.

my indigo mac is 192,168.1.101. on this mac where i installed brew/mosquitto, i can do this:

ow you can test the installation and ensure the server is running successfully. Open a new command window and start a listener.

mosquitto_sub -t topic/state

In another window, send a message to the listener.

mosquitto_pub -t topic/state -m "Hello World"

and i see hellow world in the other window as expected.

what am i missing? is the ip of my broker device supposed to be 192,168.1.101?

thanks for any pointers