I recently installed Home Assistant on my Windows 10 Pro HomeSeer machine using Oracle Box to setup a virtual machine. I also have an Abode security system.
The reason for running HA was its Abode Security System plugin. I had created the virtual machine, installed HA, and had the Abode plugin connected to my security system in under 20 minutes!
Being a HomeSeer user, I would like to send the status of the Abode devices (binary sensors) on/off to HA’s Mosquitto which I also have running, and then use HomeSeer’s mcsMQTT plugin to populate virtual devices with these values.
I have the Mosquitto configuration working and can manually send a message to HomeSeer (using their mcsMQTT plugin).
Now the confusing (to me) part.
It seems all the examples I’ve read uses MQTT to obtain information from other systems to populate HA devices. I need to go the other way around…have HA devices read by HomeSeer.
I’ve read the binary sensors MQTT page as well as other posts. There is also an ESPEasy software package, but I’m not sure this is the way to go.
If I could just get one device going, I can setup the remainder. I know I will need to configure the YAML configuration and do some more investigation, but I’m just looking for the right path to follow at this point.
Thanks for the help!
BSR