Is there anyone using MQTT as gateway for connecting to openHab running on another Rpi. If so please help with any links, post or any information to direct me on the right path.
@epierre said:
Hello,
have you contacted Itead support on this ?
I bought one too but had no time to test it yet (In fact I was waiting for you
No worries, @epierre . I put a test webserver on the iBoard to make sure it was working OK. I was able to browse an SD card over ethernet so I didn't want to bother their support people. I never heard from @nneeoo and just decided to go the hardware route. It seems to be working just fine. I recommend it. It's more stable than the serial gateway I was running.
@UglyKidJoe
I have been using OpenHAB and MQTT for a number of years now.
The reason for using MQTT and not just a serial connection from the MySensors GW is partly the flexibility as many have stated previously here. Easy to test, using e.g. the mqtt.fx tool. If you want to know what is going on you simply connect to the MQTT stream and "snoop" on the messages.
Another reason is that I am running three geographical sites on one OH installation. OH is running on a NUC at my home. There is also an MQTT GW here. Two other My Sensors MQTT-GW are running remotely in two summer houses. The three GW connect over internet to a cloud-based MQTT broker and OH connects to the same broker. In that way I do not have to open any ports into my home network for access should I have had a local MQTT-broker at home.
@5546dug
Yes I think you need 1.4.1 or latest. The messages you see (0;0;3;9...) are traffic in the wireless sensor network.
My problem appeared again. The EthernetGateway responds to Ping but Vera plugin says:
"Cannot send command - communications error"
So perhaps increasing power could help, but how? Is adding capacitors enough?? Like for the radio there already is one..
@OldSurferDude well, the ESP8266 is limited to 4 TCP clients in arduino IDE. This can't be really increased. I did som experiments and you can set it up to 15, but after the 5th client on my web server, I got a freeze.
Maybe you got something wrong. #define MY_GATEWAY_MAX_CLIENTS 2 defines how many controllers (eg Home Assistant) can connect to the gateway, not how many sensors/MySensors devices.
And yes, you can have multiple TCP gateways in HomeAssistant. I got an NRF24, an RFM95 long range and a RFM95 short range gateway (all based on ESP32) on the same Home Assistant.
Regards, Edi
@chamroeun-ou said in Integrate with ThingsBoard:
If I use Thingsboard gateway, I will have to deploy Mysensors gateway anyway in order to intercept the incoming RF24 data, right?
Yes
