MQTT sensors for MQTT Sensor integration

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Hi,

I’m rather confused, most likely for I am a newbee.

I am looking for MQTT sensors (see also previous post), so I can start configuring the decision process. The integration mentions mqtt sensors, and I’ve been looking on the components section. But I truly get lost to find ‘out of the box’ mqtt sensors.

Simply put, I need:

  • temperature
  • humidity (of air and soil)
  • air quality (LPG, CO, CH4)
  • light sensor

Prefer them to be small, and wireless (will have around 10 temp/humidity) and 1 light, 1 air and connected to valves. Much like, but different than this post.

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Waiting to be corrected, but I get the impression most MQTT sensors are homemade. I use MQTT a lot but they are all generally made out of ESP8266 with my own code on them.

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There are lots of different ZigBee sensors that cover at least temperature, humidity and illuminance, for air quality I don’t know. You can then use a ZigBee controller stick and use ZigBee2MQTT. This way you will have everything in MQTT.

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That would explain a lot indeed! So should be stop looking for it as well. The shelly H&T does and quite good as well. With the help of this HACS. .

Most impressed by the script btw.

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Brilliant, thanks for the help! Will look into it.

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Shelly supports mqtt out of the box. See https://shelly.cloud
Everysting you mention except air quality sensors are available at a fair price.

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Everything is a bit much, but indeed, quite some. The H&T of shelly is not too bad.

But soil temp and soil humidity is not there, nor indeed air quality. Light sensors is missing as far as I know. In that respect, it only supports air humidity and air temperature.