Announcing MQTT/Android bridging app: Zanzito. Beta testers wanted!

Archive Zanzito for Android
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I’ve created new report and now I’m receiving my indoor location

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both in MQTT server in pi3 and MQTT server in FIND, I don’t see nothing in topic subscribed … mygroup/#

maybe it will show only changes?

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You should see at least on your broker messages every 30 seconds from zanzito in format yourgroup/track/yourdevicename

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I see it zanzito. Not in pi3 mosquitto, not in FIND mosquitto

EDIT. There was a mistype in my config. I adjusted it now.

One ppoint @MrMep after you put the LEARN location, how do you stop the LEARNING process? It seems it stays on, whuch is wrong if you move with your smartphone around, no?

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Now it updates on the FIND MQTT server.

But not in my pi3 mosquitto server … strange

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You just tap the notification.

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in configuration is this correct? the [0] should be present?

value_template: '{{ value_json.users.mi5splus[0].location }}'

I see the Zanzito messages in FIND MQTT server, not in my pi3 MQTT mosquitto server

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I’ve not added template sensor in my hass with location from find

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If zanzito is reporting location to FIND and you want to cross check the location, add a report to zanzito like
type JSON name current location topic <group>/location/<device name> Android notification <True> key location

To show FIND location in HA
Create a new sensor
- platform: mqtt state_topic: '<group>/location/<device name>' name: <name_of_sensor> value_template: '{{ value_json.location }}'

To use this on automations like light switching, the location reporting has to be instantaneous. Setting zanzito to report every second drains the battery very quickly.
I am using Room+ app to do the location reporting with very minimal impact on battery.

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Have you found a way to integrate it into HA device tracking? I suspect we might need to update the MQTT JSON device tracker to accept the location key…

Do you have any suggestion that could solve this problem?

gl

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Just setup all.
Looks nice

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Can you disclose your code?

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For card and sensors?

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Nice app. Have been playing around with it for the last day or so and just purchased the full version.

Any chance you can add iBeacon/Eddystone support? This would let me get rid of OwnTracks altogether.

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Thanks! Added to my TODO list, but it will take a while I’m afraid :slight_smile:

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I’d be interested on how the integration between Room+ and Tasker is done and I think Zanzito is also in the mix to send MQTT messages to Home-assistant?

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@MrMep

In the manual, it says zanzito can receive photo using this topic zanzito/<your-device-name>/photonotification. But how is the payload if I want to send a snapshot from my IPCAM? It has username and password. Any sample?

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Have you tried using the notifier component? See the last usage example, would it work for you?

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I know that works. But I prefer using the mqtt.publish method because it’s​ simpler for my automation. It will publish to topic using the value from %devicename%. If using the notifier component, I need to create the notify entity first for every devices.

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Hello MrMep. Can we have notifier component that will accept device name as parameter in service call?
Something like this:

- service: notify.my_device
  data:
    message: 'Message body'
    title: 'Message title'
    device: 'Device name'

This will make life easier.