Architecture
MQTT
Home Assistant does not have a builtin MQTT Broker, so I have a docker for it: Adding Mosquitto (MQTT) to my Home Automation
Java Application as Bridge
Github Source: https://github.com/jobu279/zensehome
Compile the source code or fetch the runtime. Edit config.properties to suit your network and mqtt.
Samples below are referenced from /home/bnp/production/zensehome/zensemqtt
You need to create a "/home/bnp/production/zensehome/zensemqtt/logs" directory; - then execute the application
root@robin:~/production/zensehome/zensemqtt# java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -classpath /home/bnp/production/zensehome:/home/bnp/production/zensehome/zensemqtt/mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar zensemqtt.ZenseMQTT Jan 09, 2019 8:14:01 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: Starting ZenseHome MQTT listener
Setup a light source
My configuration.yaml has these parts:
mqtt: broker: 10.0.0.150 light: !include light.yaml
My lights.yaml looks like this:
- platform: mqtt
name: "Kitchen Light"
state_topic: "zense/execute/18324"
command_topic: "zense/execute/18324"
payload_on: "ON"
payload_off: "OFF"
- platform: mqtt
name: "Office Light"
state_topic: "zense/execute/10604"
command_topic: "zense/execute/10604"
payload_on: "ON"
payload_off: "OFF"
- platform: mqtt
name: "Bedroom Light"
state_topic: "zense/execute/58739"
command_topic: "zense/execute/58739"
payload_on: "ON"
payload_off: "OFF"
....
....
With the Topics according to https://github.com/jobu279/zensehome. The Id can be found in the Zensehome Windows Application:
After restarting Home Assistent, the lights will be entries:
Installing as a service
Follow: https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-run-java-jar-application-with-systemd-on-linux/
Logging
Watch the Log in /home/bnp/production/zensehome/zensemqtt/logs
root@robin:~/production/zensehome/zensemqtt/logs# cat 2019-1_ZenseLog.log Jan 09, 2019 7:44:53 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: Starting ZenseHome MQTT listener Jan 09, 2019 7:46:35 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/10604, Message: ON Jan 09, 2019 7:46:37 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/10604, Message: OFF Jan 09, 2019 7:46:43 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/10604, Message: ON Jan 09, 2019 7:46:44 PM zensemqtt.Log logging SEVERE: Error in socket creation: java.net.SocketException Jan 09, 2019 7:46:54 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/10604, Message: OFF Jan 09, 2019 7:46:55 PM zensemqtt.Log logging SEVERE: Error in socket creation: java.net.SocketException Jan 09, 2019 7:47:00 PM zensemqtt.Log logging INFO: New message with topic: zense/execute/10604, Message: ON
Notice the "SEVERE: Error in socket creation: java.net.SocketException" - this means the ZenseHome box is non-responding
Use the MQTT Explorer for examining the topics