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aderusha / HASwitchPlate

LCD touchscreen for Home Automation
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Add an MQTT Group Name parameter #21

Closed rohankapoorcom closed 6 years ago

rohankapoorcom commented 6 years ago

Allow HASP to subscribe to commands under a group name. This would mean that multiple hasps would be subscribed to the same groupname (command) topics in addition to their own unique nodename topics.

This would make it simpler from a HA point to update the information on multiple HASPs at once even if all pages don't show the same thing. For my use case, I have the same status screen with the clock, date, weather on each HASP, even though the lighting controls are different. This change will allow simplified HA automations (and/or removing redundant ones) since all HASPs will subscribe to the same groupname command topics.

In theory this also makes updating easier since they can all be MQTT updated at once.

aderusha commented 6 years ago

Initial tests look good, wrapping this into dev branch with some other fixes I've been working on