Realtime Updates

[patchworkboy]

Realtime Updates

[PatchworkBoy]

Consider this the ReleaseCandidate version, currently in testing towards Release status: https://github.com/PatchworkBoy/homebridge-eDomoticz/tree/mqtt-integration

To use, firstly it’s presumed that users have Mosquito or another MQTT broker running locally on the same system as Domoticz. It’s preinstalled on both Domoticz SD Card images.

Now, In Domoticz web interface: Setup > Hardware...

Add New Hardware...

Type: MQTT Client Gateway with LAN interface
Remote Address: 127.0.0.1
Port: 1883
Username: (only populate these if you’ve set up security in your MQTT broker)
Password: (only populate these if you’ve set up security in your MQTT broker)
Publish Topic: out

Domoticz will now publish all device changes via MQTT.

Amend your homebridge config.json to include the MQTT fields as follows:

{
    "bridge": {
        "name": “Homebridge”,
        "username": "CC:21:3E:E4:DE:33”,
        "port": 51826,
        "pin": "031-45-154”
    },
    "description": "Configuration file for (e)xtended Domoticz platform.”,
    "platforms": [
        {
            "platform": “eDomoticz”,
            "name": “eDomoticz”,
            "server": “127.0.0.1”,
            "port": “8080”,
            "ssl": 0,
            "roomid": 0,
            "mqttenable": 1,
            "mqttserver": “127.0.0.1”,
            "mqttport": “1883”,
            "mqttauth": 1,          //only needed if you've password protected mosquitto via mosquitto.conf
            "mqttuser": "username", //only needed if you've password protected mosquitto via mosquitto.conf
            "mqttpass": "password"  //only needed if you've password protected mosquitto via mosquitto.conf
        }
    ],
    "accessories": []
}

SWITCHES are now realtime updated on the fly via HomeKit... ie: Devices of type Switch, Contact, Blinds, Smoke, BlindsInverted, Dimmer, Motion, PushOn, BlindsPercentage & BlindsPercentageInverted.

SENSORS are not. These are a work-in-progress. Priority was on the switches.

[rswilem]

Closing this, just merged mqtt-integration into master (466db94)

[PatchworkBoy]

Current state of the mqtt-integration branch is:

Connects to mqtt://server:port (which are picked up from config.json), subscribes to domoticz/out stream, & echoes messages out to the Homebridge log.

Messages need parsing and acting upon.

[PatchworkBoy]

This creates a HUGE amount of traffic from my Domoticz install, and I can see it will CRUCIFY battery life of devices enrolled to the HomeKit instance...

Might have to be down to the user to create their own rate-limiting patch in node-red to filter down the domoticz/out stream. We can include a flow file to cover this if I can’t find a way to rate limit within mqtt.js