[SOLVED] Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?

xbmcnut

Hi there,

First time user and loving this after stumbling across it on YouTube. First mirror demo up and running on Jessie Lite albeit without the screensaver or auto start working but I was wondering if anyone has tried MMM-mqtt? I have it configured and it is connecting to my broker but when I’m publishing to the topic the MM is subscribed to, no data appears on the screen.

I’ve logged an issue here but would appreciate it if anyone could let me know if there’s is working and paste their config. :confused:

[UPDATE 25TH July 2017]. See my issue here https://github.com/javiergayala/MMM-mqtt/issues/1. @javiergayala has modified the instructions now to ensure you have a MQTT client installed first otherwise MMM-mqtt won’t work.

cowboysdude

Not as of yet but a project I"m interested in will require it so I’m curious as to how this works out…

dantodd

I know this is an old topic but hopefully someone has started using this module and can help out. I am looking for a way to have mqtt fire off an alert box when it receives a specific message on a particular topic. I haven’t really worked with alerts either.

xbmcnut

@dantodd said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

I know this is an old topic but hopefully someone has started using this module and can help out. I am looking for a way to have mqtt fire off an alert box when it receives a specific message on a particular topic. I haven’t really worked with alerts either.

I have MQTT working now and pulling in data (Temperature) from a remote MQTT broker. Don’t think MMM-mqtt is going to handle your alert natively. You’d need something like Home Assistant to manage the automation?

dantodd

@xbmcnut said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

I have MQTT working now and pulling in data (Temperature) from a remote MQTT broker. Don’t think MMM-mqtt is going to handle your alert natively. You’d need something like Home Assistant to manage the automation?

I have mosquito running I just want to send an alert to the alert module when I receive a notification that the mail was delivered on the topic: /sensors/mailbox

cowboysdude

@xbmcnut said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

@dantodd said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

I know this is an old topic but hopefully someone has started using this module and can help out. I am looking for a way to have mqtt fire off an alert box when it receives a specific message on a particular topic. I haven’t really worked with alerts either.

I have MQTT working now and pulling in data (Temperature) from a remote MQTT broker. Don’t think MMM-mqtt is going to handle your alert natively. You’d need something like Home Assistant to manage the automation?

I am hoping I can do the same as you but using openHab…

cowboysdude

@xbmcnut said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

@dantodd said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

I know this is an old topic but hopefully someone has started using this module and can help out. I am looking for a way to have mqtt fire off an alert box when it receives a specific message on a particular topic. I haven’t really worked with alerts either.

I have MQTT working now and pulling in data (Temperature) from a remote MQTT broker. Don’t think MMM-mqtt is going to handle your alert natively. You’d need something like Home Assistant to manage the automation?

Would you care to share how you did it? Thanks!

MrEdOne

Hello. @xbmcnut i tried to use this module to connect to my home assistant broker with login and password but no success.
How can i show a state of my sensors from Esp8266 connected to home assistant via mqtt on my mirror?

xbmcnut

@MrEdOne said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

Hello. @xbmcnut i tried to use this module to connect to my home assistant broker with login and password but no success.
How can i show a state of my sensors from Esp8266 connected to home assistant via mqtt on my mirror?

As per the instructions here https://github.com/javiergayala/MMM-mqtt, sadly MMM-mqtt “Currently only supports unencrypted/unauthenticated MQTT connections” so it won’t work on a broker that has a username and password set up.

cowboysdude

@xbmcnut No sure it’ll work for me… haven’t looked into but we’ll see. I need it to make a connection with OpenHab.

xbmcnut

@cowboysdude said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

Would you care to share how you did it? Thanks!

Here is my config:

{					
			module: 'MMM-mqtt',
			position: 'bottom_left',
			header: 'Office Temperature', // This is optional
			config: {
				mqttServer: 'mqtt://10.0.2.8', //Connection string for the server to connect to (mqtt://localhost)
				topic: '/garage/dallas/temperature',
				postText: ' °C'
			}
		},

xbmcnut

@cowboysdude said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

@xbmcnut No sure it’ll work for me… haven’t looked into but we’ll see. I need it to make a connection with OpenHab.

If you are using a MQTT broker, MMM-mqtt will work with any HA system as it’s only subscribing to a MQTT topic.

cowboysdude

@xbmcnut Great to know!! Thank you!

Going to build a module to show the temp from this on the mirror:

https://hestiapi.com/

At some point would like to be able to change the temp as well but just getting it to show the temp right now would be awesome :)

xbmcnut

@cowboysdude said in Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

Going to build a module to show the temp from this on the mirror

Should be pretty easy if that device can publish the temperature to a broker.

cowboysdude

@xbmcnut It can. I have ‘the guide’ another user put together for the thermostat and now this module! :) Shouldn’t be too bad. Just have to find time to really focus on it… perhaps this weekend. I’m just so busy.

cowboysdude

Is there a way to seek multiple topics without having to run the module several times? Like using an array …

xbmcnut

@cowboysdude said in [SOLVED] Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?:

Is there a way to seek multiple topics without having to run the module several times? Like using an array …

Yes, you can add another entity in the same position and it will add it below the older one (including the title)

cowboysdude

Are you referring to running the module more than once in the config.js and in the same position?
That is what I’m doing but adding the entry 7 times to my config would be a bit tedious :)

axellejamous

Hello,

I was wondering if any of you know how to actually subscribe and publish to a topic using this module? I currently tried adding two different modules to the config file and have one set as sending and one as receiving but that just causes the module to crash. Has anyone figured out how to do both of these at the same time?