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MQTT API Reference

A list of API calls and information specific to the MQTT plugin.

App Creation

To create apps based on just the MQTT API, use some code like the following:

import mqttapi as mqtt

class MyApp(mqtt.Mqtt):

    def initialize(self):

Making Calls to MQTT

The MQTT Plugin uses the inherited call_service() helper function the AppDaemon API, to carry out service calls from within an AppDaemon app. See the documentation of this function here for a detailed description.

The function call_service() allows the app to carry out one of the following services:

  • Publish
  • Subscribe
  • Unsubscribe

By simply specifying within the function what is to be done. It uses configuration specified in the plugin configuration which simplifies the call within the app significantly. Different brokers can be accessed within an App, as long as they are all declared when the plugins are configured, and using the namespace parameter. See the section on namespaces for a detailed description.

Examples

# if wanting to publish data to a broker
self.call_service("publish", topic = "homeassistant/bedroom/light", payload = "ON")
# if wanting to unsubscribe a topic from a broker in a different namespace
self.call_service("unsubscribe", topic = "homeassistant/bedroom/light", namespace = "mqtt2")

The MQTT API also provides 3 convenience functions to make calling of specific functions easier and more readable. These are documented in the following section.

Reference

Services

appdaemon.plugins.mqtt.mqttapi.Mqtt.mqtt_subscribe

appdaemon.plugins.mqtt.mqttapi.Mqtt.mqtt_unsubscribe

appdaemon.plugins.mqtt.mqttapi.Mqtt.mqtt_publish

appdaemon.plugins.mqtt.mqttapi.Mqtt.is_client_connected

Events

appdaemon.plugins.mqtt.mqttapi.Mqtt.listen_event

MQTT Config

Developers can get the MQTT configuration data (i.e., client_id or username) using the helper function get_plugin_config() inherited from the AppDaemon API. See the documentation of this function here for a detailed description.

See More

Read the AppDaemon API Reference to learn other inherited helper functions that can be used by Hass applications.