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Maybe I should add that what y'all see as device, homie on an ESP to me is just a router in a network that transmits messages from and to endpoint,...

Sorry guys, I don't get it, why "invent" $location &type geo: etc when we already have $unit, $datatype and $format in place? Make those available system wide. And in most...

exactly. It is a node. Lets build HomieZero, put homie on an esp and start stripping away everything in such a way that we in the end still have something...

The train is a nice one. Do they provide their location like a beacon? If so, how different is that to the random number generator? Do they communicate to establish...

Fwiw, rendering 05-04-1999, POV-Ray 3.1. The intersection depth between liquid and glass was tweaked a lot to get this result. 

$stats/... yes, probably also $online, they are not meta-data but measurement values.

Forgot to look at the redesign branch, from that I would add $state, it is not meta-data per se. (In my simple Homie-applications I publish the state of the state-machine...

> go back into configuration mode for a few minutes before attempting to reconnect again Several of my sensors have their own displays and work with or without wifi. I...

Agree with @Nzbuu the state of things may have changed during the down period and or reset and you'd be working with stale data. Also a "drop out" should be...

The water does not stop flowing when power fails. On restart the count continues but I have 100l more in the tank than the display tells because it continued with...