can you also send connected to WIFI SSID sensor through MQTT - useful to enable location based zone triggers
ie. work wifi connected = zone work
Hey Ionut, I’m not sure whether this is a general problem or just me experiencing it.
But when I use this component LimitlessLED - Home Assistant it then freeze the slider in the Ariela app, when using the slider. It is only the slider that freezes and not the program itself.
I’ve enabled the webgui and I use the lovelace.
If I try to do the same from the browser as mentioned earlier, then I don’t get the freezing slider.
It doesn’t work this way. For now Ariela will just only send sensors informations from the phone device.
Yes that could be done. Note that this feature is already implemented via build in device tracker (you have to select the tracking mode wifi only).
Thank you for letting me know. I will try to reproduce the issue, and i will let you know if i have any questions.
Hello everybody,
Version 1.2.4.6 is out.
What’s new:
- fixed issue when adding home wifi networks ( from Ariela Settings)
- MQTT sensors are now discoverable by HA
- small other issues fixed
Please test it and let me know how it goes. Also please let me know what other types of mqtt data you want Ariela to send. Next available data will be : wifi information, phone call active
When updating pro, getting an error cannot install as already installed.
Can you post a screenshot?
No sorry, it was just a notification BUT the app did update!
Great 
Please let me know if you have other issues.
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Hello everybody,
As you may know, many apps were developed before as a Android client for Home Assistant. Unfortunately many of them stopped developing.
Ariela, has a lot of potential of becoming a great app, an app that maybe in the future can be considered the official Home Assistant android client. In order to speed up the development process ( adding new features, fixing more bugs) more time must be allocated. Because i still have to work for supporting myself, i can only work in the spare time on Ariela, so i do not have the enough time i want to be allocated on developing.
Knowing this, i created a Patreon page, if anyone wants to help i will really be grateful. Of course, the Ariela development will not stop even if the Patreon goals are not fulfilled, and updates will be available almost daily as it was until now.
Anyway, it was a little hard for me for opening this Patreon page, and you will have to understand that no one is obligated to contribute, do it only if you wanna help me making Ariela a full time job or you really love Ariela, and like i said, the development of Ariela will continue as it was until now.
Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/arielahomeassistant
Also, a little teaser of the update will be available today: MQTT Wi-Fi sensor.
Thank you very much.
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Hello everybody,
Version 1.2.4.7 is out.
What’s new:
- fix thermostat UI issue when using dark theme
- added icons to MQTT sensors
- added Wi-Fi MQTT sensor
- send MQTT sensors information every 10 seconds
Please test it and let me know how it works.
On the previous version, I noticed today that I was getting ‘could not connect’ messages when away from my home WiFi. As I do not have any external access setup, I would expect the app to not try and connect when not connected to a nominated WiFi. This should also be true for MQTT I think (not tried it yet).
I also noticed that clearing the app from the used apps did not close the app, I had to do a ‘force close’ to stop these notifications.
Do you have the auto-reconnection enabled in Ariela? If not that could not connect it is supposed to be shown at least once (when the disconnection occurred). The MQTT will only connect when the communication to HA is established.
I believe that you enabled permanent notification. Enabling that option will do exacly what i says: have Ariela (actually the service) running in background. You can use the exit option from Ariela to close everything.
hi @Ionut
connecting to mqtt doesnt work somehow.
its in my home network same ip as HA, but different port without username and password.
if i click on check and save config it just says connection process failed
Hi, do you use the default mqtt broker? If yes the username you must put is “homeassistant”. For more details you will have to check MQTT - Home Assistant or MQTT – Ariela
Please let me know how it goes.
no not default (mosquito), and i dont have a username
I will send a debug version to investigate what is happening.
Yes
Big assumption that the MQTT broker is accessible because the HA server is. What about a cloud based MQTT service?
No it is off as I have too many notifications in the tray and on the pull down.
So the behavior is normal. Also because you didn’t setup external access, Ariela will just detect non home wifi network, no config and show that cannot connect message.
Like i said before, in your case Ariela detects that no external config is available and just show cannot connect dialog. Also, MQTT connection will be established only if the HA websocket is successfully connected,and disconnected when the websocket disconnects. What do you mean by a cloud based MQTT service?
Can you reproduce the problem again please? Could you send me a video of the issue? It will really help me investigate the problem
First Google result. You could use this instead of self hosting the MQTT Broker. This could then be available when HA isn’t.
Sent debug log by email (thanks for the response).
Even if the MQTT broker will be a cloud based one, the MQTT connection will only be tried after the Ariela is successfully connected to Home Assistant. If you want this behavior to change please let me know.