Need help with MMM-MQTTbridge not "communicating" with MMM-RTSPStream

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 im saying the module will report when it receives the mqtt info. it did not report. sooooo it did not receive the info

why i do not know

Cr4z33

@sdetweil hmmm I see.

I wonder if there’s actually another way to see the doorbell stream when the button is pressed?

There’s a button sensor entity for it in Home Assistant.

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 i dont know, but MQTTBridge was not informed of the button press as you expected

is your other bridge code running? you mentioned you had some app talking to the doorbell and publishing the mqtt message

is the doorbell an mqtt device , fed thru zigbee2mqtt for homeassistant?
or is there a native integration?
i would expect the doorbell to NOT publish to mqtt directly
it would be a tiny market to add and support that code IN the doorbell firmware

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 you could build an HA automation to send the MQTT message on button push

Cr4z33

@sdetweil said in Need help with MMM-MQTTbridge not "communicating" with MMM-RTSPStream:

@Cr4z33 you could build an HA automation to send the MQTT message on button push

But then again nothing would happen.

I mean I’ve already DahuaVTO2MQTT in the middle and I used the right line taken from its console, but here we are. 😅

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 something is not sending the mqtt message

bell -> ha automation -> mqtt -> mqttbridge -> rtsp…
should work

for me, this works

alexa-> nodered -> mqtt > ha automation -> mqtt -> mirror_app -> screen off

Cr4z33

@sdetweil said in Need help with MMM-MQTTbridge not "communicating" with MMM-RTSPStream:

@Cr4z33 something is not sending the mqtt message

bell -> ha automation -> mqtt -> mqttbridge -> rtsp…
should work

for me, this works

alexa-> nodered -> mqtt > ha automation -> mqtt -> mirror_app -> screen off

And you are using this MQTT module on the smart mirror or?

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 no, i wrote my own code for the mqtt integration

but its fundamentally doing the same thing, receiving an mqtt message and sending a notification to other code to act

Cr4z33

@sdetweil I see I wish I had the same skills to do ALL by myself lol!

However I wonder if I am the only person in the world having a smart video doorbell and MagicMirror?

I mean I haven’t found any universal solution to this in this forum, but just some modules for certain doorbell hardware like Ring, etc.

sdetweil

@Cr4z33 and the ring module talks directly to the ring doorbell

you should be able to use HA automation to get to mqttBridge, no fancy coding

automation trigger
device bell button push
action, more, command, mqtt publish

i have ring doorbell, and the module doesnt work for me
doesnt matter, as im hardly ever in front of the smartmirror when the doorbell rings
there is a ring2mqtt docker container, but again it really doesnt add anything useful