urri34 / HA-Mqtt-AppDaemon-Publisher

Appdaemon scripts and config that allow you to publish messages in your Mqtt broker thru a servide call in Home Assistant with yaml parameters.

HA-Mqtt-AppDaemon-Publisher

Contains the python scripts I use to interact with a Mqtt server from my HAServer using AppDaemon. It is so powerful beacuse you can invoque a service thru HAServer and this service is going to publish what you want in the Mqtt brocker.

appdaemon.yaml

This is my file that configures my AppDaemon AddOn. It's important to activate both plugins HASS and MQTT, and in case of the MQTT adjust some local parameters:

client_user: mqtt

The username used to connect to the Mqtt broker. It can be any of the users that have access to the HA Server (it can be a good idea to use the same one you configured while setting up the Mosquito Mqtt broker in HAServer).

client_password: mqtt

The password for the username

apps.yaml

So easy! Trust me! I'm an engineer!

geeksend:

The name of the project inside AppDaemon

module: geeksend

The name of the file without the .py extension

class: GeekSendClass

The name of the class you have defined inside the geeksend.py file

geeksend.py

Get info from the event GEEK_SEND_EVENT called from HAServer and publish it in the Mqtt server. This is the json type we send:

MessageDict = {
    'Element': 'WifiSolar',
    'Status': '0'
}

Calling events from HAServer with parameters

Call the service from the HAServer with the parameters in the yaml format:

See it appearing in the Mqtt broker