NOTE that the Home Assistant menus have changed since this video. The "Supervisor store" is now in "Add-ons" from the "Settings" menu. Adding a user is trickier as it is now a tab on the "People" page from the "Settings" menu. BUT... you must first enable "Advanced Mode" on your profile, opened by clicking your name in the lower left corner. All this took quiet a while to wade thru and figure out!!
There is no addon category in the settings menu Edit: You need to set up hass with supervised mode initially to have the option. Scroll to the bottom of the installation docs to see how.
@@fergazoid I spent some time reading, since I setup hass as a docker container it doesn't include the Supervised version. You need Debian to setup hass with supervised, I'm on Ubuntu 🤦🏼♂️ But I figured it out 👍
Please pin this comment - or do another video, prior, I was creating a person that could log in but this is not the same as a user which you can only do with advanced options on!
I spent many hours trying to understand the different authentication options and you got it clear in 6 seconds. Your video is straight to the point. Thanks!
For those who maybe have the same problem I had, I couldn't find the Configuration->Users section, you need to enable "Advanced features" on your profile for Users to show up under Configurations.
Great video, came complete sense and even thought the version was slightly different, i managed to get everything up and running and felt like a wizard afterwards.
THANK YOU! After watching a dozen MQTT videos (with super-tiny text and thick accents), I finally found your video. Not only did it make sense, but it allowed me to finally get my stupid Tasmotized ESP32 to be recognized in HA. Only drawback: the relays I'm running via Tasmota are only available by directly accessing the URL of the device; I see the relay names in HA, but can't control them from HA. *sigh*
Thank you! Your videos are excellent and precise and clear. I've been learning a lot from your videos. I've been able to setup MQTT, and even secure it using TLS, and having disabled non-encrypted traffic, however I'd highly value a tech Tuesday video on how to setup/flash the devices with tasmota to allow TLS from the start (without having to revert back to unsecured port 1883). I've also got proper SSL and one url already configured for the Home Assistant as well. Thanks!
I am SO grateful I found this. There's a lot of videos but this seriously got me through some serious roadblocks I've been dealing with for days. Huge thanks
outstanding video, clear, concise, working example and from my experience you even offer support when asked questions! you should be one of the top smart home youtubers! cant wait until everyone realises how much better you are than most the others out there
At minute 6:05 in the more recent versions of HA, this "users" tabs is no longer present by default. You must go into your own person settings (left bottom of the page) and enable "Advanced Mode". Been searching like mad why that "users" wasn't shown on my new install.
Thanks for the comment Simon, hopefully this gets you a bit closer, MQTT is really powerful and not scary once you get started! Let me know how it goes!
Incredible video, In all of your videos you have a perfect way of describing things that make them just click in my head! Sincerely, thank you so much for all the work you do in these videos!
The most important point i have learned in this video: Many tuturials (like the official documentation) ask you to add a "person" in HomeAssistent. But under this dialog you get a complety diffrent dialog and can not set a password. You have to switch the tab and add an "user" instead. I wasted a whole sunday afternoon to reconise this diffrent. So its might be good to highlight this point.
Still new to home assistant. Found your video very helpful, but still unable to connect to MQTT, I get connection failed. I'm trying home assistant which doesn't include supervisor so I've setup the MQTT broker manually. I've completed the tests from terminal to check the broker is working, but when I try to connect from home assistant I get connection failed. Any help would be very grateful.
small question :) i am trying to start make a small projet here temp and humdity sensor will publish on somewere the measurement and save the values, home assistence is a good option? by the way, do have any video showing how to install home assistence? ty :)
Nice job! Please consider of making a video, on how to connect a simple relay which is controlled by an esp32 or esp8266, programmed 1. with arduino IDE 2. with espHome.... I think this is something that a lot of people would like to understand, because after a Google research, not many things are clear enough...And all this connected to home assistant (and MQTT with the first part of arduino IDE )
Great content - thanks! A small suggestion: the black background theme on your HA install may be easy on the eyes for the actual user, but the contrast comes through poorly in UA-cam's window. Please consider filming screens that have higher contrast - bold colours on a white background, for instance.
Very well done with this explanation, I'm very unfamiliar but I'm now closer to making things switch on and off...perhaps even when I want them to :) 👍
Thanks for your instructions but it was a nightmare trying to find the correct places to find these menu links etc. One thing I think you didnt cover is what if those messages are not getting published. I believe I have done everything you mentioned but no messages getting published @ 7:06
Hi - I'm about to start the Home Assistant journey. I already have a lot of IoT sensors, some use Modbus protocol. Can Home Assistant talk to Modbus ? Thanks.
i do not get it. I followed your video step by step and upp till the point where you use the real-world exampel its working great. But when i try to connect a shelly 1 like you did i do not get any message.
Do you have a video or guide on doing this if MQTT is on a separate VM? I wanna give it a whirl, as I have HAOS on a Proxmox host, and my MariaDB is on separate VM/container already. Wanted to think about doing MQTT on separate VM/container as well.
I'd still love to see more stuff that isn't dependent on a supervised install... I have done many of the topics he's covered already, but it would be good to cover them from "both sides", since many people (like myself) run HA in a non-supervised environment like Docker or even Core.
I tried to get the mqtt server to listen for a wildcard topic with my Shelly device exactly as you suggested, but it wouldnt show up as an event. Any tips? Im assuming the error was probably Shelly side.
Hi Lewis Thanks for all your help. I am running ZAH in home assistant and my devices are dropping off too frequently, have to reboot home assistant every few days . I would like to switch to MQTT. I have the Zigbee bridge flash with Tasmota 4 sonoff mini behind switches, 1 motion sensor and a toggle switch to controle the lights. How is the best way to do the switch to MQTT. I already have MQTT install following one of your previous video but not using it. Thanks Lewis. P.S . I watch your video on the Mushroom dashboard, will try that after i figure this MQTT thing.
are those MQTT messages transmitted over TCP or UDP? if it's TCP, that takes care of the delivery guarantees. TCP not only guarantees that all packets get delivered, it also guarantees that they come out the other end in the right order, even if a packet gets lost and needs to be re-transmitted out of sequence. with UDP there are no such guarantees, but it can be faster than TCP because there is no handshake.
Hello good morning and first of all thanks for your videos, I ask you a question to see if you can help me, I have the lights of my home with esp8266 before I used adafruit and fttt and change to hassio but I have the problem that mqtt connects and disconnects repeatedly Sometimes and there are points where it is no longer connected, can you think of a solution? or do I go back to ifttt and adafruit? thank you very much genius
very very clean man. I am trying this with tasmota. but i have a problem with connecting to the mqtt server. I also run duckdns. and thats where it gets a bit complicated with the ip. not sure if thats my problem though. everything else seems to be okay. i have tested with https and without for my duckdns and same with my ip.
Thanks, Lewis. You've untangled a knotty problem for me. I'm giving serious consideration to being a member. Do you have another contact method rather than this in to cover a few questions? I had a look around by can't see anything immediate.
Excellent video and explanation. I've seen other videos similar to this, but the piece that never gets explained is why. There are Zwave to MQTT and Zigbee to MQTT addons, but what is the advantage vs the standard addons? Is MQTT just for pulling in devices that don't integrate directly? If so, how to you take a device on your MQTT broker and create an entity in HA?
Tha is Jeffrey! MQTT is just a ubiquitous way of exchanign information so it's an excellent way to integrate devices together and get them talking, it's super lightweight and fast!
how to install mqtt client in esp32 or esp8266 with custom code can you make a video on that...its easy to setup devices which are ready for mqtt but making a non mqtt supported code(lets say blink sketch in arduino ide) to mqtt client is herd for newbes like me...people like you could really help us
@@EverythingSmartHome Right under my nose. Thanks :) Edit: Was sent here via ua-cam.com/video/F0jCAoM5ry8/v-deo.html Everythng is working as it should. Thanks again.
Hello, I have a request for you if you can help me. I installed HA on a generic laptop-x86-64 250Gb storage and 8Gb memory. I got a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 Dongle plus and 2 Aqara P1 motion sensors. I can't integrate Zigbee2MQTT in HA. I install, I did all the configurations from your tutorials but the add-on does not start. You can help me, I haven't gotten any help from anyone here. Thank you very much. I note that HA is the only one installed on the laptop.
I don’t have Supervisor and installed Mosquitto in Docker. MQTT 2.0+ now requires you to specify a listener and is less permissive of clients being able to subscribe to the broker. I upgraded the image to latest and everything stopped working. I had to downgrade to 1.16.4 to recover functionality. I am thinking it may be time to move to supervisor but I’m unsure of how to do so. My HA is also in docker. Advice?
Great video, will help if you can make a part 2 which covers how you can use the mqtt payloads received by home assistant mqtt broker to trigger actions or display information such as temperature on the lovelace UI
Hello, do I have to buy a Rasperry Pi and install on it mosquitoo broker to control esp8266/32 with Home Assistant via MQTT/Node-RED? I've found that there is the CloudMQTT service so I could use it for simple project? So then I don't have to buy a RPi and just buy esp chip/relay module controlled by RS485(modbus)/create a server on CloudMQTT - intergrate it with my Home Assistant account and then install Node-RED for Home Assistant. So simply my mobile phone (Home Assistant app) can be the Publisher to CloudMQTT Broker and my ESP will be the subscriber to the CloudMQTT Broker then if ESP (if I click a button on Home Assistant app on my mobile phone) receives a message e.g. msgString == "1" it would do the code to change the state on the relay via Modbus?
In a HURRY? Yes you answer questions as QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. At 8:33 lost controle of everything. Where can I find that screen. Later Mqtt explorer ????
Thx for the great videos! I saw you reviewed SwitchBot curtain. Can you make a tutorial to get it working with home assistant? (without using a SwitchBot hub? Thx in advance!
I've been struggling with this for the last 3 days. I can't even get Frigate to start! I'm using it within Home Assistant on my Unraid server, but the Frigate log says 'ERROR : Unable to connect to MQTT server: [Errno 111] Connection refused'. I typed exactly what you did in your frigate.yml. I tested MQTT within HA just as you said, and it works. I opened all ports. I can't figure out what to do, it's driving me nuts! Any ideas?
@@EverythingSmartHome haha fair enough, imanaged to get a light working once and i cant even remember how i did it, everyone raves about node red though and says so much more can be done with it than automations in HA. i can wait, im trying to leave my system alone for a bit so i dont break anything now its finally working like a dream.
Thanks for the tutorial sir, do you recommend securing mqtt messages with ssl certificates is necessary if I access home assistant through home vpn ? Appreciated
If your running MQTT on your local network and only on your local network then I don't see a need for it personally but the option is there if you want to do it. If it runs over the internet then yes always use SSL
everything worked for me till the part about using the wildcard to listen to shelly messages. I am not getting anything from my shelly devices... what am i doing wrong? I have watched this video three times and i think my settings are correct :(
ah never mind. a device reboot started giving me the MQTT messages from my shelly devices :) thanks for your videos man! very easy to understand! you are a great teacher! would you be able to make a video on how to integrate the shelly 3EM into home assistant? I am basically looking to get total energy usage by day and by month and the cost of usage by day and month.... I cant figure this stuff out on my own :(
Be good to list interesting Mqtt projects in home assistant like esp home, tasmota, zigbee2mqtt and maybe my sensors. Of course a bit of back story to adoption of mqtt from its inception in oil pipelines and use in WhatsApp and signal also nice to have passing mention. Liking the videos. You are from glasgow aren’t you so am I. Keep it up.
NOTE that the Home Assistant menus have changed since this video. The "Supervisor store" is now in "Add-ons" from the "Settings" menu. Adding a user is trickier as it is now a tab on the "People" page from the "Settings" menu. BUT... you must first enable "Advanced Mode" on your profile, opened by clicking your name in the lower left corner. All this took quiet a while to wade thru and figure out!!
There is no addon category in the settings menu
Edit: You need to set up hass with supervised mode initially to have the option. Scroll to the bottom of the installation docs to see how.
@@saiverx That might be a menu item requiring 'Advanced Mode' be set in your profile, which in turn requires you to be an 'admin'.
@@fergazoid I spent some time reading, since I setup hass as a docker container it doesn't include the Supervised version. You need Debian to setup hass with supervised, I'm on Ubuntu 🤦🏼♂️ But I figured it out 👍
Please pin this comment - or do another video, prior, I was creating a person that could log in but this is not the same as a user which you can only do with advanced options on!
And you don't need to reboot for the addon to be detected :D
This man is reading my mind on what I want to see.
🔮🧙
I spent many hours trying to understand the different authentication options and you got it clear in 6 seconds. Your video is straight to the point. Thanks!
That's awesome, thanks for the comment!
Finally I can understand what is MQTT when you show the listen to a topic concept, you are one of the best Home Assistant youtuber! :)
First video of yours I've seen. Well done. Your instructions were clear and specific. Thank you
Thak you for this. I've watched quite a few videos on this subject and they seem to miss step or two. I finally can use MQTT
Thank you so much! I was stuck on 6:58 and most videos just gloss over this section. Finally working, thank you!
Finally got my Tasmotized Sonoff S31 plugs to show up in my device list with your help here. Thank you!
The video helped me to unterstand the fundamentals of MQTT and how to setup in Home Assistant. Excellent video!
Awesome, glad it was useful!
For those who maybe have the same problem I had, I couldn't find the Configuration->Users section, you need to enable "Advanced features" on your profile for Users to show up under Configurations.
Great video, came complete sense and even thought the version was slightly different, i managed to get everything up and running and felt like a wizard afterwards.
oh damn! it can be so easy! thanks for the easy setup! was trying over 2 days now ....... with your guide 5 min
My man 🙌
Excelent! Password concept in HA also well explained. This has been lacking in the other videos.
Glad you enjoyed it! 🙏
THANK YOU! After watching a dozen MQTT videos (with super-tiny text and thick accents), I finally found your video. Not only did it make sense, but it allowed me to finally get my stupid Tasmotized ESP32 to be recognized in HA. Only drawback: the relays I'm running via Tasmota are only available by directly accessing the URL of the device; I see the relay names in HA, but can't control them from HA. *sigh*
Thank you! Your videos are excellent and precise and clear. I've been learning a lot from your videos.
I've been able to setup MQTT, and even secure it using TLS, and having disabled non-encrypted traffic, however I'd highly value a tech Tuesday video on how to setup/flash the devices with tasmota to allow TLS from the start (without having to revert back to unsecured port 1883).
I've also got proper SSL and one url already configured for the Home Assistant as well.
Thanks!
I am SO grateful I found this. There's a lot of videos but this seriously got me through some serious roadblocks I've been dealing with for days. Huge thanks
That's awesome Alex! Glad I could help!
Thanks Lewis - this helped for the HASS client install as my MQTT was not correctly installed via another YT vid!
Amazing, rebuilding system and forgot some of the subtle issues. Came back to this video and problem gone
Thanks 👍
Once again, another great tutorial. I've always looked at MQTT but was somewhat intimidated... Not anymore. Thanks to you! Bravo!!!
Thanks Jesse for the support as always, glad it could help!
outstanding video, clear, concise, working example and from my experience you even offer support when asked questions! you should be one of the top smart home youtubers! cant wait until everyone realises how much better you are than most the others out there
Thanks Aaron, appreciate the support! Don't know about best but doing my best for sure! Thanks again friend 🙏
Great tutorial! Got my mqtt setup running with your pedagogic instructions,thank's!
I had to look that word up haha, thank you very much glad it was useful!
PERFECT! I am just starting with HA but I am finding your videos very useful, thank you for your time ;-)
At minute 6:05 in the more recent versions of HA, this "users" tabs is no longer present by default. You must go into your own person settings (left bottom of the page) and enable "Advanced Mode". Been searching like mad why that "users" wasn't shown on my new install.
Thank you. I've always found mqtt as a bit of a dark art, and have generally avoided products and projects that use it. Will def have another look now
Thanks for the comment Simon, hopefully this gets you a bit closer, MQTT is really powerful and not scary once you get started! Let me know how it goes!
Incredible video, In all of your videos you have a perfect way of describing things that make them just click in my head! Sincerely, thank you so much for all the work you do in these videos!
Excellent video! Thanks! First one I've watched in 2 years and it was simply perfect! Great job!
Thanks, glad it was useful!
Clear and concise as always . Thank you
The most important point i have learned in this video: Many tuturials (like the official documentation) ask you to add a "person" in HomeAssistent. But under this dialog you get a complety diffrent dialog and can not set a password. You have to switch the tab and add an "user" instead. I wasted a whole sunday afternoon to reconise this diffrent. So its might be good to highlight this point.
Excellent, as always!
Thanks buddy!
Thank you. Very thorough explanation.
Thanks for this. I was having trouble connecting to my local broker and the issue was that I hadn't added an MQTT user to HA.
Still new to home assistant. Found your video very helpful, but still unable to connect to MQTT, I get connection failed.
I'm trying home assistant which doesn't include supervisor so I've setup the MQTT broker manually. I've completed the tests from terminal to check the broker is working, but when I try to connect from home assistant I get connection failed. Any help would be very grateful.
small question :) i am trying to start make a small projet here temp and humdity sensor will publish on somewere the measurement and save the values, home assistence is a good option? by the way, do have any video showing how to install home assistence? ty :)
Nice job! Please consider of making a video, on how to connect a simple relay which is controlled by an esp32 or esp8266, programmed 1. with arduino IDE 2. with espHome.... I think this is something that a lot of people would like to understand, because after a Google research, not many things are clear enough...And all this connected to home assistant (and MQTT with the first part of arduino IDE )
Thanks I will add it to the list!
you saved an hour of my life THX
Nice 👊
your channel is gold!
Thank you sir!
Thank you! Now how do you setup a MQTT relay after we get all the infra running?
awesome, great help for a newbie like me
Thank you for sharing. Nice quality tutorial and very easy to understand.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Clear and concise as always buddy..
Thank you my friend!
Great content - thanks! A small suggestion: the black background theme on your HA install may be easy on the eyes for the actual user, but the contrast comes through poorly in UA-cam's window. Please consider filming screens that have higher contrast - bold colours on a white background, for instance.
Or just zoom the browser content.
Very helpful thank you. Great simple MQTT explanation too. Successfully installed and working.
Awesome, glad it was useful!
Very well done with this explanation, I'm very unfamiliar but I'm now closer to making things switch on and off...perhaps even when I want them to :) 👍
Thanks, glad I could help!
Thanks for the tutorial, very useful. I work in software, mqtt is the same as kafka and GCP pub/sub. Very cool!
Great video
Thanks for your instructions but it was a nightmare trying to find the correct places to find these menu links etc. One thing I think you didnt cover is what if those messages are not getting published. I believe I have done everything you mentioned but no messages getting published @ 7:06
Same here. Followed the instructions to the letter but my shelly devices are not publishing messages....
I enjoyed the video, but i was hoping for the reasons i would want to add MQTT to my home assistant. What is the benefit?
Hi - I'm about to start the Home Assistant journey. I already have a lot of IoT sensors, some use Modbus protocol. Can Home Assistant talk to Modbus ?
Thanks.
i do not get it. I followed your video step by step and upp till the point where you use the real-world exampel its working great. But when i try to connect a shelly 1 like you did i do not get any message.
Do you have a video or guide on doing this if MQTT is on a separate VM? I wanna give it a whirl, as I have HAOS on a Proxmox host, and my MariaDB is on separate VM/container already. Wanted to think about doing MQTT on separate VM/container as well.
Another great video thanks
All my devices through MQTT devices are shown as lights. How to I change that, so lights are shown as lights, locks as locks and sensors as sensors.
Should Debugging be on (I am getting Client unknown closed its connection)
I'd still love to see more stuff that isn't dependent on a supervised install... I have done many of the topics he's covered already, but it would be good to cover them from "both sides", since many people (like myself) run HA in a non-supervised environment like Docker or even Core.
I'd love to do more of them too, unfortunately it would double the length of a lot of videos. But where I can, I absolutely will;
I can't find a video that shows how to add mqtt switches in the home assistant 😪 please help me?
I make mobile in kivy and I want to connect with esp32. With the mqtt protocol. How I can use it kindly make a vedio on it
Hi may i know what is the possible issue i need to adress if device not appear in mqtt? Actually i already pair it with zigbee2mqtt addon.
I tried to get the mqtt server to listen for a wildcard topic with my Shelly device exactly as you suggested, but it wouldnt show up as an event. Any tips? Im assuming the error was probably Shelly side.
Muy bueno compadre !! Excelente explicación !!
Gracias mi amigo!!
Hi Lewis Thanks for all your help. I am running ZAH in home assistant and my devices are dropping off too frequently, have to reboot home assistant every few days . I would like to switch to MQTT. I have the Zigbee bridge flash with Tasmota 4 sonoff mini behind switches, 1 motion sensor and a toggle switch to controle the lights. How is the best way to do the switch to MQTT. I already have MQTT install following one of your previous video but not using it. Thanks Lewis. P.S . I watch your video on the Mushroom dashboard, will try that after i figure this MQTT thing.
Thanks, very helpful!
are those MQTT messages transmitted over TCP or UDP? if it's TCP, that takes care of the delivery guarantees. TCP not only guarantees that all packets get delivered, it also guarantees that they come out the other end in the right order, even if a packet gets lost and needs to be re-transmitted out of sequence. with UDP there are no such guarantees, but it can be faster than TCP because there is no handshake.
Great video. Thanks for the overview and examples. Much appreciated
Cheers David!
"You can find that linked up here" .... flashes on for 2 seconds.
Please provide links in the text below the video?
Hello good morning and first of all thanks for your videos, I ask you a question to see if you can help me, I have the lights of my home with esp8266 before I used adafruit and fttt and change to hassio but I have the problem that mqtt connects and disconnects repeatedly Sometimes and there are points where it is no longer connected, can you think of a solution? or do I go back to ifttt and adafruit? thank you very much genius
Is this the one I want to see my Ring doorbell image? I can't find ring-MQTT
very very clean man. I am trying this with tasmota. but i have a problem with connecting to the mqtt server. I also run duckdns. and thats where it gets a bit complicated with the ip. not sure if thats my problem though. everything else seems to be okay. i have tested with https and without for my duckdns and same with my ip.
Will this work with a ConBee stick?
Thank you!
Hello , very well explainned . Might EMQ X Broker work with HA ?
Hi! How do i change QoS from 0 to 1 or 2?
Great video, thanks. Would like to know how to make a sensor out of MQTTT in the future ;-)
I want to integrate my Ring alarm system with HA in order to utilise its sensors in automation. Is MQTT the answer?
I believe there is a ring to MQTT custom integration somewhere but haven't used it myself
Doing a full reinstall of home assistant, things were getting a little too errory in the logs. Time to binge some everything smart home.
Haha YES, binge watch all the videos!
Thanks, Lewis. You've untangled a knotty problem for me. I'm giving serious consideration to being a member. Do you have another contact method rather than this in to cover a few questions? I had a look around by can't see anything immediate.
Excellent video and explanation. I've seen other videos similar to this, but the piece that never gets explained is why. There are Zwave to MQTT and Zigbee to MQTT addons, but what is the advantage vs the standard addons? Is MQTT just for pulling in devices that don't integrate directly? If so, how to you take a device on your MQTT broker and create an entity in HA?
Tha is Jeffrey! MQTT is just a ubiquitous way of exchanign information so it's an excellent way to integrate devices together and get them talking, it's super lightweight and fast!
Great stuff!
Can you do one on Rest API
Thank you sir!
This video starts at 5:00
thanks for you
but users not show in my home assistant how to show it
how to install mqtt client in esp32 or esp8266 with custom code
can you make a video on that...its easy to setup devices which are ready for mqtt but making a non mqtt supported code(lets say blink sketch in arduino ide) to mqtt client is herd for newbes like me...people like you could really help us
Is the Supervisor Store still a thing? How do I find it? Thanks.
Yes it's under Settings > addons
@@EverythingSmartHome Right under my nose. Thanks :)
Edit: Was sent here via ua-cam.com/video/F0jCAoM5ry8/v-deo.html
Everythng is working as it should. Thanks again.
Thank you you’re every much appreciate your don’t understand.
Question: I am about to buy a device for HA, how to tell if it supports MQTT please?
Google is probably the only way, unless they state it in their specs
Hello, I have a request for you if you can help me. I installed HA on a generic laptop-x86-64 250Gb storage and 8Gb memory. I got a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 Dongle plus and 2 Aqara P1 motion sensors. I can't integrate Zigbee2MQTT in HA. I install, I did all the configurations from your tutorials but the add-on does not start. You can help me, I haven't gotten any help from anyone here. Thank you very much.
I note that HA is the only one installed on the laptop.
I don’t have Supervisor and installed Mosquitto in Docker. MQTT 2.0+ now requires you to specify a listener and is less permissive of clients being able to subscribe to the broker. I upgraded the image to latest and everything stopped working. I had to downgrade to 1.16.4 to recover functionality. I am thinking it may be time to move to supervisor but I’m unsure of how to do so. My HA is also in docker. Advice?
Hey Nick, hoping to cover migration at some point soon!
I'm using docker and I don't even know how to integrate it with ha :( Are you still using non-supervised or have you migrated?
Please make a tutorial on how to install HO with supervisor on TrueNas in Virtual Machine.
Thanks for your share video!
Thanks for watching!
From here how to i do about adding mqtt devices in homeassistant.
After watching the videos, everything is simple and clear. Thanks! 😀👌
Thanks glad you liked it!
Great video, will help if you can make a part 2 which covers how you can use the mqtt payloads received by home assistant mqtt broker to trigger actions or display information such as temperature on the lovelace UI
Thanks! Sure I hope too soon
@@EverythingSmartHome Did you end up doing this?
Hello, do I have to buy a Rasperry Pi and install on it mosquitoo broker to control esp8266/32 with Home Assistant via MQTT/Node-RED? I've found that there is the CloudMQTT service so I could use it for simple project? So then I don't have to buy a RPi and just buy esp chip/relay module controlled by RS485(modbus)/create a server on CloudMQTT - intergrate it with my Home Assistant account and then install Node-RED for Home Assistant. So simply my mobile phone (Home Assistant app) can be the Publisher to CloudMQTT Broker and my ESP will be the subscriber to the CloudMQTT Broker then if ESP (if I click a button on Home Assistant app on my mobile phone) receives a message e.g. msgString == "1" it would do the code to change the state on the relay via Modbus?
Thanks for the video =)
Thanks for watching!
In a HURRY? Yes you answer questions as QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE. At 8:33 lost controle of everything. Where can I find that screen. Later Mqtt explorer ????
It's mentioned at 6.44, not sure how you got lost? Follow closely.
@@EverythingSmartHome The left side of the screen
@@EverythingSmartHome MQTT explorer?
Thx for the great videos! I saw you reviewed SwitchBot curtain. Can you make a tutorial to get it working with home assistant? (without using a SwitchBot hub? Thx in advance!
Thanks!
I've been struggling with this for the last 3 days. I can't even get Frigate to start! I'm using it within Home Assistant on my Unraid server, but the Frigate log says 'ERROR : Unable to connect to MQTT server: [Errno 111] Connection refused'. I typed exactly what you did in your frigate.yml. I tested MQTT within HA just as you said, and it works. I opened all ports. I can't figure out what to do, it's driving me nuts!
Any ideas?
Hope in the discord server I'm sure we can sort you out!
great video, i had to learn mqtt a month or so back and this would have made things a bit easier. have you considered doing a node-red video?
Cheers Mark, I have, lots of people have requested it. I keep putting it off 👀🤣
@@EverythingSmartHome haha fair enough, imanaged to get a light working once and i cant even remember how i did it, everyone raves about node red though and says so much more can be done with it than automations in HA. i can wait, im trying to leave my system alone for a bit so i dont break anything now its finally working like a dream.
Thanks for the tutorial sir, do you recommend securing mqtt messages with ssl certificates is necessary if I access home assistant through home vpn ?
Appreciated
If your running MQTT on your local network and only on your local network then I don't see a need for it personally but the option is there if you want to do it. If it runs over the internet then yes always use SSL
everything worked for me till the part about using the wildcard to listen to shelly messages. I am not getting anything from my shelly devices... what am i doing wrong? I have watched this video three times and i think my settings are correct :(
ah never mind. a device reboot started giving me the MQTT messages from my shelly devices :) thanks for your videos man! very easy to understand! you are a great teacher! would you be able to make a video on how to integrate the shelly 3EM into home assistant? I am basically looking to get total energy usage by day and by month and the cost of usage by day and month.... I cant figure this stuff out on my own :(
Glad you got it, they always need reboots after changing anything! Hmm I will if I ever get one sure!
Be good to list interesting Mqtt projects in home assistant like esp home, tasmota, zigbee2mqtt and maybe my sensors. Of course a bit of back story to adoption of mqtt from its inception in oil pipelines and use in WhatsApp and signal also nice to have passing mention.
Liking the videos. You are from glasgow aren’t you so am I. Keep it up.
Thanks Ben appreciate it! Not quite from Glasgow no, much further north in Scotland! Good to see another Scot!