MQTT State Stream Help

Configuration
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On my main instance I have a mosquitto mqtt server running.

On my remote instance I setup mqtt statestream and which publishes to that server, the screen shot below shows the state stream publishing to the MQTT server on my main instance.

I can’t seem to pull the values from the MQTT server into sensors on the main instance. Below is the config in my sensor.yaml on the main instance.

  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "remote/sensor/dht_sensor_temperature/state"
    name: "Temperature"
    unit_of_measurement: "°F"

  - platform: mqtt
    state_topic: "remote/sensor/dht_sensor_humidity/state"
    name: "Humidity"
    unit_of_measurement: "%"

Below is a screen shot of a check of the state stream using remote/#. Seems like I have everything right, what am I not setting up right?

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Mine look like this…

- platform: mqtt
  state_topic: 'stat/MQTTOSSensor/OSTemp'
  name: 'OS Sensor Temp'
  unit_of_measurement: '°C'
  value_template: '{{ value_json.OSTemp }}'
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Only difference I see is the value template, which I don’t think I need as the MQTT value is just the value not in JSON.

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Do the MQTT sensors show up at all? Are the sensors missing or are they showing up but not reading values?

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They show up as sensors in the main instance but are not pulling the values. Both are reporting “unknown”

No errors in the log either, forgot to mention that.

6

So this was either an issue of “double quotes” vs. ‘single quote’ around the state topic

or

I had the client_id in the main MQTT setup the same on both instances.

those changes and a restart on both pi’s and I am up in running.

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That will be the problem.

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hi,

Im just getting to know mqtt_streams a bit, and am trying to set it up to show the stream in a separate Card in the frontend. Would this be possible?
I have only this in my configuration file since i want to read all state changes, and don’t want to clutter for now with attributes and timestamps :

mqtt_statestream:
  base_topic: homeassistant
  publish_attributes: false
  publish_timestamps: false

Thanks for any help,
Marius