Proper configuration mqtt / zoneminder?

repomanz · June 24, 2020, 4:45am

Hi everyone,

I’m learning HA and have the addon mqtt broker installed. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here so hoping community can point it out.

I have zoneminder setup with event server and notifications are being sent to the mqtt broker. You can see flow in logs here:

I have a mqtt in flow configured to broker and topic: zoneminder/1

However, i’m not seeing any information in the debug. I used a out mqtt configured against the same topic and I see payloads coming.

Tips on what I’m doing wrong here? Ultimately I’m wanting to use mqtt to alert me so I can trigger a light to turn on.

Knol010 · July 13, 2020, 11:11am

Maybe you can help me?
I have the dlandon docker Zoneminder installed. I don’t get MQTT to work properly and i don’t see any logs with zmeventnotification.ini.

My broker is running correctly with other devices.
I also changed the secrets.ini with my username and password.

repomanz · July 13, 2020, 12:42pm

Likely this is on the zoneminder side. Do you see logs being generated within zoneminder that indicate zoneminder has sent a mqtt message?

Knol010 · July 13, 2020, 1:12pm

No i don’t see anything. I should see zmeventnotification in the logs i think?

repomanz · July 13, 2020, 1:27pm

sounds like you do not have event server setup correctly.

did you install event server with the container? Assume you may be using machine learning as well
in your zmeventnotification.ini do you have this?

event_end_notify_on_hook_success = fcm,web,api,mqtt

Knol010 · July 13, 2020, 2:30pm

1 i really don’t know, sorry! How can I install it in docker?
2 i found the line and i miss “mqtt”. I edited like your line.

Knol010 · July 13, 2020, 3:40pm

I’m a little further now. Any suggestion?

repomanz · July 13, 2020, 3:57pm

I stumbled over this small step myself after realizing that the dlander container allows you to enable both ML and ES as part of the configuration. However what it doesn’t do is install a mqtt client within the container.

You need to shell into the docker container for zoneminder and run this:

perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::MQTT::Simple"

source info:
https://zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/install.html

yonny24 · December 9, 2021, 4:02pm

I’m having the same issue. Followed all the steps. debug says mqtt is running.
user and password, broker are all correct.

I did initially get it working but then messed up the installation, so started again clean. This time it will not send any payloads to my broker. Very odd.