Integrate MQTT products from my brand into Home Assistant

[CCEI (Cyril Canlay)]

Good morning,

I’m trying to add my company’s products to the list of integrations, but I’m having trouble understanding exactly how it all works.

To begin, the products connect to Wi-Fi and after finding their IP address, one can send and receive information in MQTT.

But I’m having trouble finding documentation that explains how to do this

Firstly, I set up my development environment with this without big problems:

• Set up Development Environment | Home Assistant Developer Docs

Then I created an integration with this:

• Creating your first integration | Home Assistant Developer Docs

But afterward, I don’t really know how to continue
I found these links, but I’m not sure how to integrate them, and I’m having trouble understanding everything.

• Integration Manifest | Home Assistant Developer Docs
• https://github.com/home-assistant/example-custom-config/tree/master/custom_components/mqtt_basic_async
• https://github.com/home-assistant/example-custom-config/tree/master/custom_components/mqtt_basic_sync

Should this be used as a dependency?

• MQTT - Home Assistant

Did I miss something?
Am I at least on the right track?

Thank you for your reply

[mobile.andrew.jones (Andrew Jones)]

If your products are sending data via MQTT, then your easiest step to make them compatible with Home Assistant without needing to create an integration at all, is to go down the MQTT Auto Discovery route.

MQTT

There are plenty of links to other projects that use MQTT Discovery too if you need to see some real world projects using it.

[CCEI (Cyril Canlay)]

thank you for your answer I will look into all of this