Tasker emulating OwnTracks with MQTT (without OwnTracks)

Third party integrations
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  1. can you please paste the MQTT message that your android is sending, but HASS is not accepting?

and…

  1. can you please check your config/known_devices.yaml for any devices that are similar to the host in your MQTT messages
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  1. Here’s the mqtt message

Topic
owntracks/xiaomimi6/marco
Message (%payload variable set with tasker)
{"_type":“location”,“tid”:“mi6”,“acc”:%alaccuracy,“batt”:%BATT,“lat”:%allatitude,“lon”:%allongitude,“tst”:%TIMES,"_cp":true}

Please notice that I use Autolocation Plugin with tasker who generates different values so I don’t have to slip defaul %LOC variable (I choose it because it doesn’t require gps updates to send location).

Here’s my mqtt broker configuration (mqtt is running in a separate docker using toke/mosquitto image)

mqtt:
discovery: true
broker: 192.168.2.100
port: 1883
client_id: home-assistant-1
username: myuser
password: mypassword

And finally here’s my tasker setup action:

Device_tracking

  1. A1: AutoLocation Location [ Configuration:Starting Location Monitor
    Retrieve First Location: true
    Expiration Time: 60 seconds
    Interval: 60 seconds
    Update Type: Balanced Timeout (Seconds):61 ]
  2. A2: Variable Set [ Name:%Payload To:
    {"_type":“location”,“tid”:“mi6”,“acc”:%alaccuracy,“batt”:%BATT,“lat”:%allatitude,“lon”:%allongitude,“tst”:%TIME S,"_cp":true} Recurse Variables:Off Do Maths:Off Append:Off ]
  3. A3: MQTT Publisher [ Configuration:192.168.2.100:1883 => owntracks/marco/xiaomimi6 QoS:2 Timeout
    (Seconds):10 ]
  4. A4: AutoLocation Location [ Configuration:Stopping Location Monitor
    Interval: 60 seconds
    Update Type: No Power Timeout (Seconds):60 ]
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I don’t know why (because I haven’t changed anything)

But suddently I found an error in log:

Mon Apr 23 2018 16:28:23 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)

Unable to parse payload as JSON: {"_type":“location”,“tid”:“mr”,“acc”:14.12,“batt”:20,“lat”:xxx,“lon”:xxx,“tst”:1524429673,}

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That JSON shouldn’t have that last comma. I wonder if that is the main issue you have? The expect that a comma indicates that another variable:value pair should follow.

Also; the owntracks MQTT should be owntracks/USER/DEVICE. So try owntracks/marco/xiaomimi6

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Uhm,

that’s weird.

As you may see in my tasker setting there’s no comma :thinking:

{"_type":“location”,“tid”:“mi6”,“acc”:%alaccuracy,“batt”:%BATT,“lat”:%allatitude,“lon”:%allongitude,“tst”:%TIME S,"_cp":true}

And also: my mqtt setting is owntracks/marco/xiaomimi6 yet. May I’m missing something?

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Ok must have been a typo a few posts up (post 22); thats why I thought your topic was the other way around:

And yeah that is odd, that the comma has shown up in the HASS error…?

Your ‘tid’ value should be xiaomimi6, on mine it is my devicename:

{"_type":"location","tid":"s7","acc":44,"lat":###,"lon":###,"tst":1524561411,"_cp":"true"}

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i got this to post as payload but home assistant is not picking it up:
{"_type":"location","acc":.%LOCACC,"alt":%LOCALT",batt":%BATT,"lat":%LOC1,"lon":%LOC2,"t":"u","tid":"ke","tst":%TIMES,"vac":0,"vel":%LOCSPD}

any idea what i’m doing wrong?

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nvm had a typo
{"_type":"location","acc":.%LOCACC,"alt":%LOCALT",batt":%BATT,"lat":%LOC1,"lon":%LOC2,"t":"u","tid":"ke","tst":%TIMES,"vac":0,"vel":%LOCSPD}

",batt":%

should be

{"_type":"location","acc":.%LOCACC,"alt":%LOCALT,"batt":%BATT,"lat":%LOC1,"lon":%LOC2,"t":"u","tid":"ke","tst":%TIMES,"vac":0,"vel":%LOCSPD}

,"batt":%
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meh, still doesn’t work. i got the exact same payload as owntracks.

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I’m sorry to hear you can’t get it working.

It always worked for me, but I’ve abandoned it long since the Google location sharing approach became reliable. I’d provide a link but I’m on my phone…