Adding MQTT topic data to a Home Assistant dashboard

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Hi, I have HA receiving MQTT message from my weather station. This all works fine.

What I would like to do is to display the data from a MQTT topic on a HA dashboard.

I have an ESPHome node in my home office, whose main purpose is just as a BLE node, for tracking what room I am in.

I have added the MQTT code to this node to expose my topic data as entries which I can add to my HA dashboard.

I was just wondering if there was a easier method to do this, rather then have to use my ESPHome node.

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These 2 statements together don’t make sense. If you have HA receiving MQTT data - then that will be represented as devices and entities in HA. You don’t need an ESPHome node to do anything with that data. Just add it to a suitable weather card.

If you want the ESPHome device to display some data on a small screen, again no MQTT required, just some yaml to expose the Home Assistant entities on the ESPHome node.

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Thanks Daryl. Of course I missed the obvious as you say the MQTT message data will already be represented as devices and entities in HA. Thanks for your help.