@Stokstaart said in New plugin - Owntracks:
Would be great for learning the basics of the MQTT protocol without setting up a broker on the Pi!
Why? Installation is done in 5 seconds and takes only about 40 kilobytes of RAM.
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New plugin - Owntracks
Pimatic = Smart Home
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@wutu said in New plugin - Owntracks:
Why? Installation is done in 5 seconds and takes only about 40 kilobytes of RAM.
True, installation is quick and load is low. However i find the configuration of the OwnTrack app (Android and/or Iphone) and the device configuration in Pimatic hard. A good how-to could help to clarify on how to subscribe to topics and give a better insight in the MQTT protocol!
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@Stokstaart +1
A “How To” article on this one would be great.
Rather than asking the maintainer to do it, it would be nice if users collaborate on this and share the work load."It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.", Hofstadter's Law
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@mwittig said in New plugin - Owntracks:
Rather than asking the maintainer to do it, it would be nice if users collaborate on this and share the work load.
I would like to help on this one, however i have not found the expertise to get my setup running with the mentioned cloudmqtt nor with my own MQTT broker on the Pi. Was hoping i could use the how-to to get it running on my setup!
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@wutu said in New plugin - Owntracks:
@Stokstaart said in New plugin - Owntracks:
Would be great for learning the basics of the MQTT protocol without setting up a broker on the Pi!
Why? Installation is done in 5 seconds and takes only about 40 kilobytes of RAM.
Yes but for this specific application you need broker with internet available address/access and not needing to start all kinds of manipulations on my home network like vpn or no ip etc.
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Set up your cloudmqtt like this:
- Create an account (no payment details needed)
- Create a new CloudMQTT instance (Cute Cat is the free plan)
- From the control panel, click on the Details button.
- Create unique users for pimatic and each phone to connect
(CloudMQTT does not allow two connections from the same user)
a. Under manage users, fill in username, password and click add
b. Under ACLs, select user, topic #, check ‘read access’ and ‘write access’
Set up your owntracks application like this:
- DeviceID - give it some name like my-iphone
- Host - m20.cloudmqtt.com
- Port - 15512
set the Authentication swith to ON and set: - UserID - Your user id from cloudmqtt
- Password - your password from cloudmqtt
Set up pimatic owntrack plugin like this:
- Host - m20.cloudmqtt.com
- Port - 15512
- User - your user
- Password - your password
Set up your pimatic owntracks device like this:
- Topic - owntracks/Your user name/the device id you set up in mobile app
- lat - your home lat
3.long - your home long
Thats it, should be very simple.
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@dpressle thanks for the instructies! I Just got home and after some tinkering i got it working here as well! Just a tip, there is a Google chrome plugin which allows you to subscribe to your broker (cloud /pimatic) by using this and subscribing to “#” you van see All the massages which are arriving on the broker, making error finding a lot easier!
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@Stokstaart said in New plugin - Owntracks:
@dpressle thanks for the instructies! I Just got home and after some tinkering i got it working here as well! Just a tip, there is a Google chrome plugin which allows you to subscribe to your broker (cloud /pimatic) by using this and subscribing to “#” you van see All the massages which are arriving on the broker, making error finding a lot easier!
Using it all the time
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@dpressle i see that battery % is also reported… any plans on getting that in pimactic as well??
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@Stokstaart said in New plugin - Owntracks:
@dpressle i see that battery % is also reported… any plans on getting that in pimactic as well??
sure i can check this out, could you please open an issue in github?
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@dpressle said in New plugin - Owntracks:
sure i can check this out, could you please open an issue in github?
https://github.com/dpressle/pimatic-owntracks/issuesGithub confuses me, adding the ‘%’ is an issue? I would like to post this as a feature request… Should it then be a ‘pull request’??Nevermind, i’ll open an issue!
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it would be fine to add your howto to the plugin-readme
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Hi @dpressle,
MQTT plugin already includes support for multiple brokers. Would you therefore merge?Pimatic = Smart Home
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Hey there,
is there an option to use TLS secured broker? I had it working without proplems without TLS, but wanted to have a secure connection from outside for position updates.
