I’m happy to announce that Zanzito has been officially released on the Google Play store! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=it.barbaro.zanzito After months of testing and the invaluable help of many HA users, Zanzito is now a stable and (hopefully) useful app for your Android devices. …

Thanks, I’m still struggling between mqtt and Google Firebase Messaging. What will be better for battery and still have reasonable latency.

Somebody made it working with Ngnix? Just try to set it up - but cant find good informations

Is what working with nginx? mqtt?

I struggle a lot with the NGNIX part atm - But yes The reverse proxy handles the SSL encryption, added in nginx 1.9 https://frankfurtlovesyou.com/posts/mqtt-bridge-with-mosquitto-and-nginx.html The websockets option is maybe another take http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/mqtt-websockets/

Hello everybody, I’m not sure if you knew about this app: [image] Ariela - Home Assistant Android Client Ariela for Android Because I didn’t find an Android app that fit my needs I decided to create my own app. What is different from the other apps: NFC TAG reader (rea…

In my experiments I set up a node red notification to send a notification via SMS. It all worked well. However, I must have had the message set as retained and now every time I connect with Zanzito I send and receive the sms test message. I have tried to send a blank payload and retained to false b…

You have to publish a blank message with retain=true, not retain=false. That will cause the broker to purge the topic’s message. After that’s done, then you make sure that all future messages are published with retain=false.

Thank you, that worked. Out of interest. Do you have a prefered QoS for Zanzito? 0/1/2

I don’t use Zanzito and I don’t have a preferred level of QOS. I think the choice of QOS level depends on the situation. For my home network, I’ve has no problems (so far) using QOS 0. Here is a good explanation of MQTT’s QOS. After reading it, you can decide what you think is best for your situati…

Zanzito - A lightweight bridge between your Android device and your MQTT/home automation system

Archive Zanzito for Android

Ionut (Ionut Cristea) December 10, 2018, 2:12pm 194

Hello everybody,

I’m not sure if you knew about this app:

Its a Android app with build-in device tracking capabilities and many other features.