OmniLinkBridge to integrate Home Assistant, SmartThings, Node-RED

[sic0048]

I literally just had to "struggle" through getting MQTT working with Home Assistant last night.

I've been running CQC forever and finally am making the transition over to using Home Assitant. I am actually excited about the move, but having to relearn everything has been harder than I expected. It's not that getting MQTT set up in HA is hard, but it still takes a lot of reading the documents, and then some trial and error when actually trying it out.

That being said, my Tasmota devices have now populated themselves in HA over MQTT automatically, so I am pleased with my progress. I also had to troubleshoot some Elk M1XEP issues (that ended up requiring a new unit to be swapped over), so I have also just got the Elk working too. Now I can actually start recreating all of the lighting automation I had set up in CQC around time of day and/or Elk armed status. I feel like I am finally making progress on my transition.

 

[charliebarns]

Sounds like some good progress! I have another mqtt server up and running but I can't remember how to load it with the config and have my HA on a different device connect to it. Ahh Sage Tv! I see you were a user also. I was heavily invested in Sage with 6 HD Tuners recording many shows onto a 10Tb stack. What a fantastic program. It's a shame they sold out.

 

[pete_c]

Here initially ran MQTT autonomously on the Ubuntu server. I did have some issues with HA using MQTT. I switched the configuration of MQTT server to HA and all was well afterwards.

Lately been grouping Tasmota switches for multiple lamps in rooms. Works well.