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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon josephdadams

[Feature Request]: mqtt support

Open josephdadams opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

What feature would you like to see added to TallyArbiter?

Would be cool if TA supported mqtt for data listening and control. Keeping up to date on sources, devices, and current tally data.

josephdadams avatar Jun 11 '22 22:06 josephdadams

This definitely should be added. Most of my smart home runs through MQTT.

michaelpayne02 avatar Oct 03 '22 05:10 michaelpayne02

You use tally arbiter in your house?

josephdadams avatar Oct 03 '22 21:10 josephdadams

Haha no, I was just using it as an example of how widely used and ubiquitous MQTT is in the IOT world. However, I do actually run Home Assistant in my studio to control permanent studio lights attached to smart switches. They communicate wirelessly via Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto.

The main reason I'm asking for this feature is to be able to control an On-Air light hooked up to a smart switch outside the studio door. It would be much easier to integrate with an already existing system than try and develop listeners for each and every device type. All ESP8266 and ESP32 chips have MQTT libraries pre-made for this kind of event-based communication.

There is also a great NodeJS library as well, so I don't think this feature would be too difficult to integrate. It would simply publish messages to a broker on topics referring to bus, device, etc.

michaelpayne02 avatar Oct 03 '22 22:10 michaelpayne02