stjohnjohnson/smartthings-mqtt-bridge

Support for MQTT Discovery (HASS 0.83)

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#73 opened on Feb 12, 2017

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Description

Home Assistant has added support for MQTT Discovey: https://home-assistant.io/components/mqtt/#discovery

To enable this, the mqtt bridge would have to populate a config topic on each device which would have the name and device type in JSON.

Contributor guide

Tech stack
None
Domain
backendapi
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-2 days
Activity statusHow available the issue appears right now: fresh, active, stale, blocked, or waiting on maintainer input.
stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
Prerequisites
understanding of MQTTfamiliarity with Home Assistant discoveryknowledge of the bridge codebase
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
35
Research direction
Examine the current MQTT bridge implementation to understand how devices are registered. Implement MQTT discovery by publishing a configuration topic for each device as described in Home Assistant MQTT discovery documentation. Check the linked PRs and comments for any prior work or discussions.