Sending home assistant and standard mqtt messages together

[M0ebiu5]

It would be nice, if one could enable home assistant and standard protocoll for the same unit.

Use case is, if you want to migrate from one to another, it's much easier not to have to switch between protocolls...

[bachya]

(Related to #640 in that it's about another publisher type.)

I'm not familiar with the Homematic protocol. Can you share more information or documentation?

[M0ebiu5]

sorry - it should be home assistant...

[bachya]

This was added in 2023.06.0 (via #606). Are you experiencing a bug?

[M0ebiu5]

If i switch to home assistant, i dont get the "normal" mqtt messages...i cant enable both. I've tried setting up 2 different sections in the config file, but then i get duplicate key...if this constraint would be removed, mabe it would work?

[bachya]

I would need to see your config file to comment further there.

I just spun up a 2024.01.2 instance, and everything worked as expected:

ecowitt2mqtt --mqtt-broker 127.0.0.1 --mqtt-user ecowitt --mqtt-password password --mqtt-topic Test --hass-discovery
2024-04-01 11:36:43,000 | INFO | Starting ecowitt2mqtt (version 2024.01.2)
2024-04-01 11:36:46,361 | INFO | Published to Test
2024-04-01 11:36:46,363 | INFO | Published to Home Assistant MQTT Discovery

Notice how I'm providing both --mqtt-topic and --hass-discovery flags. With this configuration, I see all expected topics:

[M0ebiu5]

This is the command line i had to run it as a service. I also provided mqtt-topic and hass-discovery. You can see in the output, that it only sends hass messages.

ecowitt2mqtt --mqtt-broker=big --mqtt-username=*** --mqtt-password="***" --mqtt-topic=eco1 --input-data-format=ecowitt --port 8282 --output-unit-system metric --hass-discovery

2024-04-02 13:14:40,666 | INFO | Starting ecowitt2mqtt (version 2023.05.0)
2024-04-02 13:16:06,393 | INFO | Published to Home Assistant MQTT Discovery
2024-04-02 13:18:14,200 | INFO | Published to Home Assistant MQTT Discovery

[bachya]

This is the command line i had to run it as a service. I also provided mqtt-topic and hass-discovery. You can see in the output, that it only sends hass messages.

ecowitt2mqtt --mqtt-broker=big --mqtt-username=*** --mqtt-password="***" --mqtt-topic=eco1 --input-data-format=ecowitt --port 8282 --output-unit-system metric --hass-discovery



2024-04-02 13:14:40,666 | INFO | Starting ecowitt2mqtt (version 2023.05.0)

2024-04-02 13:16:06,393 | INFO | Published to Home Assistant MQTT Discovery

2024-04-02 13:18:14,200 | INFO | Published to Home Assistant MQTT Discovery

Your logs show that you are running 2023.05.0. As I mentioned above, the functionality you're looking for was released in 2023.06.0.

[M0ebiu5]

I just saw that i was running an older version...sorry!

Thanks for your support and your efforts with ecowitt2mqtt!