MQTT automation broke

Configuration
1

At some point in the HA upgrade 0.7x -> 0.86.1 procession my mqtt push-button stopped working. this used to work

  • id: ‘1239458373’
    alias: Remote Toggle
    trigger:
    • payload: ‘16672966’
      platform: mqtt
      topic: home/OpenMQTTGateway/433toMQTT
      action:
    • data:
      entity_id:
      • light.h801_1
        service: homeassistant.toggle

I’d press the digoo 433mhz button, openmqttgateway would publish the switch press value and HA would toggle my home lights; now it doesn’t work. What syntax change did I miss during the HA upgrades? Intent: i just want a push button on my nightstand to toggle the house lights when I go to bed (or get up).

2

If you go to the dev-states page you might find that the state of the automation is off. It needs to be on to trigger.

3

thanks for that though. it’s enabled. In fact I can manually trigger it and see the lights toggle state.

I can remover the payload: ‘16672966’ line and watch random (car tire pressure sensors) 433mhz messages toggle the lights also. So it’s the payload syntax that has changed since version 0.73ish.

4

Can you format the automation because the indentation is completely wrong as presented.

5 
- id: '1239458373'
  alias: Remote Toggle
  trigger:
  - payload: 'value_template: ''{{ value_json.value== "16672966"  }}'''
    platform: mqtt
    topic: home/OpenMQTTGateway/433toMQTT
  action:
  - data:
      entity_id:
      - light.h801_1
    service: homeassistant.toggle
6

this is where i’m currently at. i’m using the built in automation editor and then extracting that file for pasting from the automations.yaml file.

7

Is the message received from OpenMQTTGateway in JSON format or not?

8

home/OpenMQTTGateway/433toMQTT {“value”:16672966,“protocol”:1,“length”:24,“delay”:375}

is what i get from mosquitto_sub -h 192.168.1.35 -v -t “#”

9

Try this:

- id: '1239458373'
  alias: Remote Toggle
  trigger:
    platform: mqtt
    topic: home/OpenMQTTGateway/433toMQTT
  condition:
    condition: template
    value_template: '{{ trigger.payload_json.value == "16672966" }}'
  action:
    service: homeassistant.toggle
    entity_id: light.h801_1

There’s a similar example here.

10

this worked (had to remove the quotes around the 16672966)

- id: '1239458373'
  alias: Remote Toggle
  trigger:
    platform: mqtt
    topic: home/OpenMQTTGateway/433toMQTT
  condition:
    condition: template
    value_template: '{{ trigger.payload_json.value == 16672966 }}'
  action:
    service: homeassistant.toggle
    entity_id: light.h801_1
11

Thank you very much.

12

Hello @vv_rockhound,

Would it be possible to update OMG wiki to avoid other users your issue :
https://github.com/1technophile/OpenMQTTGateway/wiki/Home-Assistant-manual-integration

13

Yup, I missed that one (it’s int not string) and used the template you provided (which treated the payload as string). I should’ve paid closer attention to the payload sample you had provided and not your template.

Anyway, glad to hear the revised configuration worked for you.