MQTT Publish: Could not find an provider

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Hi all,

Quite new to Pimatic so go easy on me

Running on NodeJS 4.6.2 as per instructions.

The main reason I’ve set it up is to work with some Kaku switches and our doorbell, MQTT this and let Home Assistant handle it further.

However, I’m having problems getting the MQTT to work.

My MQTT config is as followed:

I’m now trying to make a rule on the doorbell device I created (homeduino):

"rules": [ { "id": "mqqt-doorbell", "rule": "when doorbell is open then publish mqtt message \"doorbell_going\" on topic \"pimatic/doorbell\" on broker default qos: 1 retain: true", "active": true, "logging": true, "name": "Doorbell mqtt" }

However, I keep getting this error from Pimatic:

[pimatic] error: Could not find an provider that provides the next action of "publish mqtt message "doorbell_going" on topic "pimatic/doorbell" on broker default qos: 1 retain: true".

What am I not seeing?

I recently experienced problems with pimatic-mqtt as well. Seems to be NodeJS related, my problems went away with NodeJs 8.16.2. See https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/4702/solved-mqtt-update/10

@flight777 said in MQTT Publish: Could not find an provider:

“rules”: [ { “id”: “mqqt-doorbell”,

org:
"rules": [ { "id": "mqqt-doorbell",.....

new:
"rules": [ { "id": "mqtt-doorbell",......

Perhaps this is the problem?

@fregger said in MQTT Publish: Could not find an provider:

I recently experienced problems with pimatic-mqtt as well. Seems to be NodeJS related, my problems went away with NodeJs 8.16.2. See https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/4702/solved-mqtt-update/10

If I’m not mistaking, but on a higher NodeJS version Homeduino is not working anymore?

@flight777 My Homeduino is working just fine with NodeJs 8.16.2

I can confirm Homeduino works with Node.js 4.9.1 / 8.16.x / 10.15.x / 10.16.x. It won’t work with Node 12, however. Same holds for pimatic-mqtt as far as I can tell.

The problem here is that Node 4.6.x is just too old. Users planning upgrade are advised to switch to Node 10. It should be noted “upgrade” really means “reinstallation”.