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DaveMDS / node-red-contrib-tasmota

Tasmota devices for NodeRed
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unable to get tasmota to connect to sensor node #8

Closed ggrobi closed 4 years ago

ggrobi commented 4 years ago

Am I not sure how the setup needs to be? do I point MQTT on the tasmota to the node-red server and if so what ports. I am new to Node-red and I have an MQTT broker taking between an esp8266/ dht11 and node-red server working. I wanted to try your software but can't find the details to get it working. Any help would be useful

DaveMDS commented 4 years ago

Sorry, but I really cannot understand your problem... please explain with more details and maybe some images

MQTT config on the tasmota device must point to your MQTT broker. Config on the tasmota node in node-red must point to your MQTT broker.

ggrobi commented 4 years ago

I understand, it still needs the broker in between. I wasn't able to get it to connect and pass on the messages as with the standard MQTT node. So I thought it might need to communicate directly with the Tasmota device. As I said I'm new to node-red and just finding my way around. What makes this different from the standards MQTT components? I don't know enough about each type to judge the merits of either. Thanks for the info. cheers Gary

DaveMDS commented 4 years ago

To use the standard MQTT node you need to know the "protocol" that tasmota implement over mqtt, you need to know where and how it publish things and you need to know what message to send to control your tasmota device. Using the tasmota nodes instead you get a plug-and-play experience, without the need to know anything about the protocol. It is just usefull to make your life easier :)

ggrobi commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the reply, is there as step by step guide or details examples? I've looked at the web page node-red and git but can't seem to find detailed info. cheers Gary

DaveMDS commented 4 years ago

no, there are no other docs for this nodes, but the config should be quite strightforward, and the images in the github pages show how you can use the nodes. To make a sensor node to work you just need two things in the node config: your broker connection (the same you have done for the standard MQTT node) and the name/id of your tasmota device. thats all