Home Assistant Addon: MQTT Bridge for uhubctl

This project was spawned by the desire to control uhubctl from within Home Assistant.

This add-on takes advantage of the API provided by Home Assistant and is extremely easy to use. You no longer even need to set up credentials to connect to the MQTT server.

Add-on Install Instructions

1. Navigate in your Home Assistant frontend to Supervisor -> Add-on Store.

2. Click the 3-dots menu at upper right ... > Repositories and add this repository's URL: https://github.com/mochipon/hassio-uhubctl

3. Scroll down the page to find the new repository, and click the new add-on named "MQTT Bridge for uhubctl"

4. Click Install and give it a few minutes to finish downloading.

5. Click Start, give it a few seconds to spin up.

Configuration

By default, the add-on publishes telemetry data to the topic tele/uhubctl/localhost. Find the target hub you want to control by checking Vendor ID (Vid), Product ID (Pid), and number of ports of each hub.

Here is an example of a yaml entry in Home Assistant to control Port 1 of HUB3-4.

switch:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: USB Fan
    unique_id: usb-fan
    icon: "mdi:fan"
    state_topic: "tele/uhubctl/localhost/HUB3-4/STATE"
    value_template: "{{ value_json.POWER1 }}"
    command_topic: "cmnd/uhubctl/localhost/HUB3-4/POWER1"
    availability_topic: "tele/uhubctl/localhost/LWT"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"