MQTT Notify Automation help

[AseKarlsson]

Hi All,
Just bougt me an Ulanzi Matrix clock and flashed it with awtrix-light.
I can send the following using MQTT Publish packet:

How can I send the same notification as an action in yaml code to a trigger, how should it be written?
Thanks,
Ase

[123 (Taras)]

Use the mqtt.publish service call. There’s an example in the documentation:

MQTT Notifications

[AseKarlsson]

Thanks Taras for the fast reply,
Checked the examples and played around.
Cant see how to specify to what MQTT unit it should go to.

  action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:

Then what in my example above?

[123 (Taras)]

Try this:

action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: Awtrix/notify
      payload:
        text: Hello
        duration: 10

[AseKarlsson]

The code does not give any error when written, but does not give any result.
I checked that the trigger is activated as it should.
Any more ideas to try?

[123 (Taras)]

The example I posted does exactly the same thing as what you did in “Publish a packet”. It publishes a payload, containing a dictionary in JSON format, to the Awtrix/notify topic.

It’s effectively the same as this:

service: mqtt.publish
data:
  topic: Awtrix/notify
  payload: '{"text": "Hello", "duration": 10}'

[AseKarlsson]

Tried the MQTT listener as well, it sees the MQTT been published in MQTT Settings but sees nothing on:

action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
    topic: Awtrix/notify
    payload: '{"text": "Hello", "duration": 10}'

or

action:
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: Awtrix/notify
      payload:
        text: Hello
        duration: 10

[123 (Taras)]

When I use this:

the result is this:

[AseKarlsson]

WORKS!

Must have been the intendtation that was the differens.

This below works geat!

  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: Awtrix/notify
      payload: '{"text": "Hello", "duration": 10}' 

Will try to solve the other way as well to write it as it it easier for us newbies.

Thanks a LOT for your help and patience to help!

//AseKarlsson

[123 (Taras)]

@AseKarlsson

Thanks a LOT for your help and patience to help!

You’re welcome!

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[AseKarlsson]

Good reminder, Of cource!

[kilopter (Kiloptero)]

Hi all! There is a way to maintain the message on top (ideal) until the trigger is off … like a window? Already make a mqtt publish… but can’t maintain on screen…

service: mqtt.publish
data:
qos: 0
retain: true
payload: >-
{ “text”: “hola, se abrio la {{ trigger.to_state.name }} ?”, “icon”:
“36493”, “durations”: 10 }
topic: awtrix_a96f40/notify

[10der (Oleg Denisenko)]

“hold” : true