MQTT

[EricWenger]

So… my sensors are great. But I can’t seem to make them talk to my home automation hub I use for the rest of my house. MQTT looks to be the way to do that? So I need to set up a server to act as an MQTT broker? Tips? Tricks?

[PhilipDAth]

Which home automation system are you using?  Which sensors have you got?

Many of them have a built-in MQTT server, so there might not be much to setup.

[PhilipDAth]

And yes, MQTT would be the first approach I would choose.

[Larry_Woods]

Would check this out.  https://wirelesslywired.com/2022/06/06/meraki-mt-mqtt-node-red-amp-home-assistant-auto-discovery/

A lot of us here are Cisco Meraki have been playing with Home Assistant with NodeRed and man its been pretty fun building things out.  That blog was written by @WirelesslyWired and its a fantastic guide on getting started if you really want to get dirty with Home Automation things.  

[EricWenger]

Thanks Larry, I know that Home Assistant has the MQTT and Node Red path. I actually moved off of HA to hubitat about a year ago for other reasons. And I would prefer not to have to move platforms again to do this! Any tips on Hubitat would be welcome! Thanks!

[PhilipDAth]

I don't know the answer, but Google tells me that Hubitat has MQTT support.

https://community.hubitat.com/t/release-hubitat-mqtt-link/44119 

https://docs2.hubitat.com/developer/interfaces/mqtt-interface