[SOLVED] Anyone tried MMM-mqtt?

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.