Re: [mh] MQTT Not Reliable

I'll be diving into MQTT in the next month or two. From this discussion 
I gather that there is an MH-native MQTT implementation, and apparently 
another approach that Giles is using. I've seen 
https://github.com/hollie/misterhouse/wiki/Items-mqtt (though not yet 
studied it in-depth), but it doesn't apparently talk about what Giles is 
doing.

Can someone please give me a very superficial explanation of the 
differences, or else point me to an article somewhere.

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.

                       -Brian M

On 8/22/23 11:08, Giles Godart-Brown wrote:
> I also have a lot of MQTT devices using the native MH code with no 
> major issues.
> Giles
>
> On 22/08/2023 17:50, H Plato wrote:
>> On an unrelated note, is the insteon MQTT code more reliable than the 
>> native MH support? Why did you switch?
>>
>> I don’t have 120 devices, but probably 50 or so devices and it’s 
>> pretty good for reliability with the odd device exception. I have a 
>> challenge with some keypadlincs getting them to sync. the MH code 
>> seems to give up after a period of time, so I end up uninstalling the 
>> KPLs from the walls and into a temporary plastic electrical box that 
>> I can plug into the same outlet as the PLM.
>>
>> Dave if you submit a PR I can merge it in. There’s been a bunch of 
>> changes over the past year or so, might be good to capture a release 
>> soon. Unfortunately my git skills have atrophied so every time I 
>> think about doing this I get frustrated with some git situation and 
>> figure I’ll do it later….
>>
>>> On Aug 20, 2023, at 1:32 PM, Stephen Switzer <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm probably running an old version of MH, so if this has been fixed 
>>> in the past 1-2 years, then please tell me to update. :)
>>>
>>> I created an integration that has MH listening to the mosquito 
>>> broker for some light commands, and for the most part, it's working. 
>>> However, it seems that random lights do not work when I send a MQTT 
>>> command to the broker. I can see the command hit the broker, but it 
>>> won't trigger an event in MH for all lights. I see no difference 
>>> between the lights that work and those that do not.
>>>
>>> Mosquito Broker:
>>> insteon/living_room_lamp on
>>> insteon/living_room_lamp/state on
>>>
>>> insteon/living_room_fan_light on
>>> caddx/motion/binary_sensor.living_motion/state on
>>> insteon/living_room_lamp off
>>> caddx/motion/binary_sensor.living_motion/state off
>>> insteon/living_room_lamp/state off
>>>
>>>
>>> MH:
>>> 08/20/23 03:21:57 PM [MQTT_RECV] living_room_lamp: on
>>> 08/20/23 03:21:59 PM [LIGHTS] $ll_liv_lamp1 is 100%
>>> 08/20/23 03:21:59 PM [MQTT_SEND] ll_liv_lamp1: on
>>>
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:06 PM [MQTT] MQTT_living_motion: on
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:07 PM [MOTION] Motion sensed in Living.
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:10 PM [MQTT_RECV] living_room_lamp: off
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:12 PM [MQTT] MQTT_living_motion: off
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:12 PM [LIGHTS] $ll_liv_lamp1 is off
>>> 08/20/23 03:22:12 PM [MQTT_SEND] ll_liv_lamp1: off
>>>
>>> You  can see MH is listening to the broker, sending messages 
>>> successfully, etc. The living_room_fan_light  event was not picked 
>>> up from the broker by MH. I don't see why. Here's the code snippets:
>>>
>>>
>>> $MQTT_insteon = new mqtt('mqtt_1', '127.0.0.1', 1883, 'insteon/#', 
>>> "", "", 120);
>>>
>>> $MQTT_insteon_living_room_fan_light_set = new 
>>> mqtt_Item($MQTT_insteon, "insteon/living_room_fan_light");
>>> $MQTT_insteon_living_room_fan_light_state = new 
>>> mqtt_Item($MQTT_insteon, "insteon/living_room_fan_light/state", 1, 1);
>>> if(my $state = state_changed $MQTT_insteon_living_room_fan_light_set) {
>>>     print_log("[MQTT_RECV] living_room_fan_light: $state");
>>>     set $living_room_fan_light $state;
>>> }
>>> if($state = state_now $fl_liv_fanlight) {
>>>     $state = ON if $state == '100%';
>>>     print_log("[MQTT_SEND] fl_liv_fanlight: $state");
>>>     set $MQTT_insteon_living_room_fan_light_state $state;
>>> }
>>>
>>> $MQTT_insteon_living_room_lamp_set = new mqtt_Item($MQTT_insteon, 
>>> "insteon/living_room_lamp");
>>> $MQTT_insteon_living_room_lamp_state = new mqtt_Item($MQTT_insteon, 
>>> "insteon/living_room_lamp/state", 1, 1);
>>> if(my $state = state_changed $MQTT_insteon_living_room_lamp_set) {
>>>     print_log("[MQTT_RECV] living_room_lamp: $state");
>>>     set $living_room_lamp $state;
>>> }
>>> if($state = state_now $ll_liv_lamp1) {
>>>     $state = ON if $state == '100%';
>>>     print_log("[MQTT_SEND] ll_liv_lamp1: $state");
>>>     set $MQTT_insteon_living_room_lamp_state $state;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Mind you, I have about 120 lights in my code, all listening to 
>>> $MQTT_insteon. Could there be a memory issue? I appreciate any input 
>>> with ideas on this.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Steve Switzer
>>>
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