ESPimaticRF 0.0.4 with MQTT

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I just pushed v0.0.4 to development branch: https://github.com/koffienl/ESPimaticRF/tree/development
This version supports both MQTT and UDP for communication between the ESP’s.

CAUTION : This version needs the librarie pubsubclient (included in the download). If you allready have it installed or don’t want to use the included librarie be aware you MUST edit pubsubclient\src\PubSubClient.h and set MQTT_MAX_PACKET_SIZE to 512 (line 26).
The included librarie allready has this change.

I’m quite new to MQTT but so far everything looks fine to me. Only tested with mosquitto on debian.
Ofcourse all the ESP’s in the ESPimaticRF chain should use the same meganism : either MQTT or UDP you can’t mix the protocols.

The ESP will connect to the MQTT broker on startup. Every 1 minute the connection is check and retried / reestablished when the connection is dropped.

Please post any bugs or issues in this topic.

sounds very good unfortunately i have no time actually to test
but i will try if i find some spare time

This guide helped me a lot : https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-setup-a-mosquitto-mqtt-server-and-receive-data-from-owntracks
(but no need for all the users creation, make sure to edit /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf and set allow_anonymous to true

Can someone elaborate on how to setup MQTT for ESPimaticRF?

I have a homeduino and node ESPimaticRF online (v0.0.6) and installed mosquitto on the ‘pimatic pi’ listening on a port, but settings the IP and port number in ESPimaticRF does not result in a MQTT connected message.

What is the way to do this?

Best regards,

Ruud

Short update. They are connected. But I do not think they are communicating to each other. How would one check that?