Pimatic MQTT plugin and RF presence detection - Help!

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Re: New plugin pimatic-mqtt

Apologies if this is a silly question. I am new to MQTT. Any idea how this device could be setup in pimatic MQTT plugin?
Topic…
RF/NewKaku-ID=00006d2f
Message…
{“raw”:“20;E5;NewKaku;ID=00006d2f;SWITCH=2;CMD=ON;\r”,“SWITCH”:2,“CMD”:“ON”}

I can’t get the device to work. It will not register. Setup is as follows…

{
      "name": "Living Room Test PIR",
      "id": "mqtt-livingroom-pir",
      "class": "MqttPresenceSensor",
      "topic": "RF/NewKaku-ID=00006d2f",
      "onMessage": "ON",
      "offMessage": "OFF",
    }

The problems I have are…

1. The device will not register present in pimatic. Any idea what I’m doing wrong?
2. The device does not send an “OFF” message - could a timeout be used here similar to contact sensors in homeduino?

Hey @gally789, the JSON message is only functional for MqttSensor devices.
In the future, I’m going to rework the interaction with incoming payload for all devices.