Just about to give up after spending a couple of days trying to get what seems like a simple thing to work - with no success.
The problem is that I just want do display the status of a door sensor in HA. I have flashed Sonoff Bridge with Tasmota, and are picking up the sensors codes all right both in the Tasmota console and in Node-Red - but I just can’t figure out how to display if a door is open or close in Home Assistant/LoveLace! Nothing fancy - just a simple icon or plain text telling if a door is open or not.
I feel I’ve tried everything, but with no luck.
How do I solve this simple task?
PS: I’m still just a newbee so please explain in easy steps
Hm. not sure how to check if MQTT is correctly installed, but I can see the sensors sending in console, if that’s what you mean (remenber: I’m a newbee )
A suggestion, don’t use Youtube videos, reddit or anything else, apart from the official documentation. In case the documentation is insufficient, come here to ask for help.
Will remember that.
I should have done it 2 days ago, but I felt I was to much of a newbee to ask a question so simple like this.
Just starting out with home automation, and this is was the first thing after lights - which I have got to work perfectly. Still ALOT to learn, and to be honest, I find many tutorials almost impossible to understand, and some of the documentation seems outdated. That makes it very hard to walk the first steps for us newbees.
The documentation is the most up-to-date resource of information you can get for non-coders. Can you please point me to the parts that seem outdated? I can take a look and maybe edit it.
I went down a similar rabbit hole when I started. The topic gets switched around when you set tasmota to autodiscover. If you turn autodiscover off, it doesn’t change back the topic.