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Zilla MQTT highlights include:

  • MQTT v5 and v3.1.1 Support:

  • MQTT-Kafka Proxying: Zilla maintains the MQTT client state across Kafka topics, providing all of the features and guarantees of a dedicated MQTT broker, such as Keep-Alive, Last Will and Testament, and all three Quality of Service (QOS) agreements. MQTT over WebSocket is also supported, so Zilla can deliver MQTT messages from Kafka down to a browser.

  • Manage Millions of Clients: Zilla is stateless, scales out linearly, and handles MQTT to Kafka connection offloading.

Try out the MQTT-Kafka proxying guide.

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Welcome!

I read through your documentation and examples a little. I’m trying understand use cases in home automation that would make Zilla something I would want to install and maintain in my home. Can you point me to some ideas and examples that would help me?

Much success with your project in 2024!

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This is interesting. I’m not sure the Home Assistant community could gain much benefit from this since there is already a Kafa integration in Home Assistant which I am using with my open source project HaKafkaNet

In theory, if you use MQTT, and have devices directly publish to MQTT, you could use something like Zilla to bypass Home Assistant