Expose my lights/switches to MQTT

[pergola.fabio]

Hey

is it possible to expose entities to MQTT? so i can control them in other solutions too?

I see there is a statestream:

MQTT Statestream

But i think it only exposes the state, dont think there is a way to send a payload back to turn on/off an light/entity

thnx for feedback

[koying (Chris B)]

I created a custom component which does exactly that:

MQTT DiscoveryStream integration

This is an “extension” (and compatible replacement) of the builtin mqtt_statestream integration. Besides the functionalities of the here-above, it also allows to publish and handles an MQTT “disvovery” setup. This is specifically useful in “Master-Slave” HA scenarios. A “slave”, by instance a specific HA instance handling zigbee and / or Bluetooth, would use this component to publish states and discovery via MQTT. A “master” would use the built-in MQTT discovery mechanism to subscribe to sta…

[pergola.fabio]

Aha, that’s indeed interesting!! I have some old indoor android 5 panels, HA doesn’t run on it, way to slow…

But I tried to install openhab on it, and works fine… So I want to expose my domains to openhab, so I can control stuff on those indoor panels…

Thnx, will have a look