James Myatt
James Myatt
My suspicion is that MQTT 5 support will be slow, so it's best to focus on the current versions.
@davidgraeff , I follow the Python Paho client closely, and I haven't seen any indication that they're working on MQTT v5 at all: e.g. https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.python/issues/213 The C client however is...
Remember that retained messages are only sent by the broker in response to a new subscription. So if Homie doesn't reconnect with a clean session, then the retained messages won't...
Abuse of retained messages is one of my pet hates in MQTT. Their purpose is only for "what should should be sent to device when they create a *new* subscription...
> Well, there is no (generic) way to poll the last seen value of a topic from the broker other than using retained messages. It's fine to use retained messages...
> > Also, the set command has only one consumer---the target device---so once it's been processed, there's no need to keep it. > > But what if the device itself...
@ThomDietrich , there seems to be a general lack of MQTT best practice guides, as far as I can tell. Might be worth having separately from the Homie site.
Probably worth converting this diversion into a discussion. But in the meantime... As a former Homie user, I feel like you need to justify why people might want to use...
@ThomDietrich exactly. The Home Assistant discovery protocol is far better supported. And esphome provides the boilerplate for 90%+ of what you want to do, which would be in the homie...