I manged to get my Flourean thermostat communicating with MQTT.
These are my notes when I instated it hope it helps someone.
Install Ubuntu on vmware workstation
install python2.7 sudo apt-get install python2.7
install setuptools sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
install git sudo apt-get install git-core
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/
sudo mkdir broadlink
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink
sudo git clone git://github.com/ptd006/python-broadlink
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink/python-broadlink
sudo python2.7 setup.py install
cd …
sudo git clone git://github.com/ralphm2004/broadlink-thermostat
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install paho-mqtt
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink/python-broadlink
sudo python2.7 setup.py install ( this seemed to fail but I cattied on anyway)
cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink/broadlink-thermostat
sudo nano broadlink-thermostat.conf (change details for your MQTT server)
sudo python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink/broadlink-thermostat/broadlink-thermostat.py
Would not start so ran sudo pip install broadlink
sudo python2.7 /usr/local/lib/python2.7/broadlink/broadlink-thermostat/broadlink-thermostat.py
broadlink discover
found: 192.168.5.110 cf407XXea34
PID child 887
Hysen heating controller
set time 5:29:38 5
cf40703XXa34 room_temp 21.0
cf4