ioBroker <-> Home Assistant communciation not really working

Third party integrations
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Hi,
I am right in the middle of switching from an 8 year working ioBroker setup to Home Assistant.
Everything is working fine but I have a problem now.

the transition is taking place bit by bit.
so far I can control all shellys and my PV system.
Everything while ioBroker is still doing its job.
However in order to do the next steps I need to communicate between the systems.

I have a working Zigbee Network that needs to stay on the ioBroker side until everything is working because I control my floor heating system with a giant script in ioBroker.

I managed to publish the needed objects from ioBroker to Home Assistant but I am not able to control anything. from HA and send it to ioBroker.

The best example is
I have 6 temp sensors in zigbee and 6 switches that are controlling the valves.
I can read the temperatures and see the switch states via MQTT in ha but cannot control the switches.

this is my configuration.yaml

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "ioBroker temp livingroom"
      state_topic: "ioBroker/temp_livingroom"
  switch:
    - name: "ioBroker valve livingroom"
      state_topic: "ioBroker/valve_livingroom"
      command_topic: "ioBroker/valve_livingroom"
      payload_on: "true"
      payload_off: "false"
      qos: 0
      retain: true

I set up a mqqtclient on the iobroker side, an its working so far.
however iobroker does not listen to anything I send it.

what can I doo to tackle the problem. Do you need further information?

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You can install MQTT Explorer on your PC, that way you can test if the topic and payload is correct. Its the best way to debug/test to check your config.

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totally stuck on what to do with that mqtt explorer

4

In what way are you stuck? Unable to login to the broker?
Or just a general not understanding of how to use it?

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I am unsure what to input there in the explorer on Linux.

I decided not to pursue this problem any further ioBroker must die! :wink:

I will help by getting values from HASS to iooBroker and switch the 4 needesd shellies directly until I figure out an automation.