Orb score network reliablity and speed measurement [orbforge]

Third party integrations
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Just a nice one I spotted today GitHub - orbforge/addon-orb: Orb Sensor Home Assistant Addon

This one is special as you can turn any supported device into a montoring stats generator. Currently i installed on Synology as docker, but link shows it directly as add-on in HA.
The app supports a command that outputs a JSON with all info, which is easliy transformed into a RESTfull entity. On discord there is already talks on officlal HA integration and/or MQTT support directly.

docker exec orb-sensor /app/orb summary > here/your/path/b/orb/orbsensorout.json

exporting to JSON file, which for me ends up on an https adress to use in rest sensor as below

  - resource: https://youserverlocation/orb/orbsensorout.json
    scan_interval: 900
    sensor:
      - name: "ORB hour sensor Syno"
        unique_id: orbsensorsyno_score
        value_template: "{{ ((value_json.orb_scores.2.display | float(0)) if value_json is defined else 'unavailable')  }}"
      - name: "ORB hour sensor Syno bandwith up"
        unique_id: orbsensorsyno_upload
        value_template: "{{ ((value_json.orb_scores.2.components.bandwidth_score.components.upload_bandwidth_kbps.value | float(2)) if value_json is defined else 'unavailable')  }}"
      - name: "ORB hour sensor Syno bandwith down"
        unique_id: orbsensorsyno_download
        value_template: "{{ ((value_json.orb_scores.2.components.bandwidth_score.components.download_bandwidth_kbps.value | float(2)) if value_json is defined else 'unavailable')  }}"
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The mqtt implementation is ready for HA. Interested if anyone has some experiences yet.

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I just stumbled upon this from another post related to the buggy speedtest.net integration.
I just installed the Orb add-on and Android app and I’m loving it so far.
This looks awesome and I just need to check the privacy and security around orb for my own sanity.

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Can you provide a layman’s explanation of the mqtt interaction and benefit with orb?

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it removes the need for a ‘native integration’ in HA. If the orb sensor pushes data to mqtt , HA will automatically create the sensors based on announce.
I just played with the json and dont think they have it served as API endpoint yet. So mqtt from the addin setup would help on ease of integrating

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Is that the program that is running on a pc or mobile? It’s not clear weather or not you have to keep the app running on another device for this to work. Once installed on ha can you delete the app used for auth from mobile/pc?

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THey’ve come a long way and have many option on installing. As addon you’ll have everything for monitoring

I’m looking for installing it in docker and push trough MQTT.