Original project: GitHub - stjohnjohnson/smartthings-mqtt-bridge: Bridge between SmartThings and MQTT Hubitat MQTT Bridge is a MQTT driver and app combo that sends events from Hubitat to an MQTT Server and can receive commands back from the MQTT Server. Release Page: GitHub - jeubanks/hubitat-mqtt…

[image] bertabcd1234: What is actionRefresh ? Sorry - forgot to reply. I made some guesses from a line in the app code where the line in the capabilities section says: "refresh": [ name: "Refresh", capability: "capability.refresh", attributes: [ ], action: "actionRefresh" ], and…

I would like to start using mqtt. There is a very affordable blinds project that uses mqtt. Really would like HE to control them but it is looking to not be possible.

[image] aaron: it is looking to not be possible. Why is this not already possible with the community Hubitat MQTT app, the hubitat-mqtt-bridge node.js app, and an MQTT broker (which you'd need anyway)? If you only control the blinds from Hubitat (or don't care to read their status), you could…

That is the issue. In order to do automation you really need to maintain the status of the position of the blinds. Though there is a possibility to blindly do this but you COULD get into a problem with sending commands that extends the motor beyond its limits and potentially causing issues. Not s…

[image] aaron: In order to do automation you really need to maintain the status of the position of the blinds. OK, so then scrap the second part of what I said and use the full Hubitat app + node.js app + MQTT broker, so anything that changes or reports the status will be known to all. …

Do you have a post about your blinds? I want to start my blinds projects back up. I'm tired of 3 sets of blinds in my house not working.

Unfortunately I don't have a 100% clean write up on them at the moment. It's a bit of an amalgam of a couple different projects. I used the housing from this project: [RELEASE] ESP8266 / Arduino servo controlled smart blinds - Community Created Device Types - SmartThings Community Although I did…

Interesting. I've been powering my servos with my Particle Photons. I wonder if they're just better. I don't have a lot of run hours logged with the things so maybe it would have killed the boards if I let it run for a year or so..

I've almost exclusively using photons - the ability to OTA program, or rather, the way particle does it, its just hard to pass up (though I'd love it if they had an ethernet version - 2.4ghz is getting pretty darn crowded...) Back to mqtt - I didn't actually try it till now as I was looking to grab…

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Ryan780 November 19, 2018, 5:41pm 42

You could also use this setup but connect your servo using the Hubduino project and an esp8266 board. I am using that for all my blinds. Direct control form HE through LAN. No broker or MQTT needed.