Flame Boss MQTT and requesting some advice for integration:

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hello all,

I am working on connecting my MQTT Flame Boss to Home Assistant. Flame Boss offers a cloud API to their MQTT servers. With this API I have been able to acquire my MQTT userID and the authentication token. Using MQTTExplorer I am seeing the JSON information from my Flame Boss.

I have created a mosquitto.conf file in my /share/mosquitto directory with the connectivity requirements and the local HA broker connects to the Flame Boss cloud MQTT service. I used MQTT Explorer to ensure the bridge has been created successfully and I do see the connection state but not sure how to see the subscribed results.

mosquitto.conf file:
connection myflameboss.com
address s7.myflameboss.com:1883
topic flameboss/(devideID/send/open
topic flameboss/deviceID/send/data
bridge_attempt_unsubscribe true
bridge_protocol_version mqttv31
cleansession true
remote_username T-userID
remote_password Authentication_Token
queue_qos0_messages 1

The topic /flameboss/(device_id)/send/open will provide JSON similar to this:

{“name”:“temps”,“cook_id”:1946515,“sec”:1620480662,“temps”:[1083,288,-32767,-32767],“set_temp”:1073,“blower”:0}

The temps are in units of decidegrees Celsius (DDC). So the breakdown of the JSON is as follows:
Pit Temperature - “temps” [0]: 1083
Meat Probe Temperature - “temps”[1]: 288

Using an algorithm of degF = (9/50) * degDDC +32 gives me the Fahrenheit of what is going on.

I have attempted to create a sensor with the following just to see if I can get any info into it but have not had any success:

  • platform: mqtt
    state_topic: “flameboss/(deviceID)/send/open”
    name: “Flame Boss”
    unit_of_measurement: “F”
    value_template: “{{value_json.temps }}”

Can someone help me with this? I am over my head in understanding what I am missing to get the data into the sensor in HA.

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I don’t have anything to add currently other than I am interested in how this develops.

I think this is a great start.

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Write up of how to install here:

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You are amazing! I’ve been researching a new thermometer and blower for my Kamado. This convinced me to go with the Flame Boss 400. Thank you so much for your testing, documentation, and follow up.

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I love my flame boss. Set it and forget it!

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Hi there,

Amazing description. was easy to follow.
my entitles created under HA. For some reason, the value was unknown so I started to check the Mosquito broker logs under HA.
I could see the following there

1631433983: Connecting bridge myflameboss.com (s9.myflameboss.com:1883)
1631433983: Connection Refused: broker unavailable
1631433983: Socket error on client local.core-mosquitto.myflameboss.com, disconnecting

Any idea what could went wrong?
Would appreciate any help.

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Make sure your userid and token are from the CURL request. Do not use your email addy in the mosquito.conf file. Should be using a T- in front of the userid you get back from CURL. So it should look like T-89643 or something similar.