MQTT Connector

[tobehn]

As once mentioned in a poll like discussion here #891 (comment) i would like to bring this up again.

It would be huge to connect to a MQTT Broker and gain realtime data from any connected device/application.
If this data could then selectively be stored into DB or used for further automation or calculation it could become very powerful.

Perhaps this could be helpful:
https://github.com/4refr0nt/svelte-mqtt-monitor

[mjashanks]

They @tobehn. I really like this idea. To be honest, I don't think we are going to be doing this soon.

If we were to implement this, it would make the most sense to do so via an Automation trigger... i.e. MQTT Trigger. In doing so, we would have to start opening this up to every other MQ as well and make triggers be pluggable.

I think this is a really nice idea that could open a lot of uses, but I can't see this being a priority at this moment in time. There is always the opportunity for things like this to be prioritised if we have a bigger, paying customer requesting it (happy to talk if you might fit into that category!).

One day, I hope that we will have this. The workaround, for now, is to

1. Create an automation, with a Webhook trigger
2. Run an MQTT handler to feed requests to this webhook

[MichaelUray]

I am also interested to have MQTT implemented, maybe this JS library could help:
https://github.com/mqttjs/MQTT.js