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Library for communication with WaterFurnace Aurora control systems
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Setup questions. #48

Closed daviss57 closed 10 months ago

daviss57 commented 11 months ago

Hope you can help, these may be very basic questions as I am new to MQTT and not 100%

I am using Home Assistant on a RPI4 and have followed your instrucitons to setup and read from my Waterfurnace.

A few questions.

  1. I have setup on a seperate RPI3 that I had laying around, I went through, when i typed sudo systemctl enable aurora_mqtt_bridge and sudo systemctl start aurora_mqtt_bridge the system seemed to pause for a few seconds but I did not get any response. Is this correct?
  2. Every time i restart do i need to enable and start the service again?
  3. Once i had it up and running on my RPI3 I was not 100% with regard to setting up in HA? Could you elaborate? i was not sure what MQTT broker the service on the RPI3 was running.

I hope these are not too basic, appreciate any help getting this up and running.

Thank you in advance.

ccutrer commented 11 months ago
  1. Yes, but you can use systemctl status aurora_mqtt_bridge to see if it's actually running, or if it failed on startup.
  2. No, systemctl enable sets it up to start at startup automatically
  3. It should be running mosquitto. Note that HA can only connect to one MQTT broker at a time (at least last time I checked), so if you're running MQTT on your HA server (or elsewhere) you'll need to configure aurora_mqtt_bridge.service to connect to that broker, instead of localhost. Otherwise, you'll configure HA to connect to your Pi.
daviss57 commented 11 months ago

Thanks, I have Mosquitto up and running, do I have to setup my username and password on my PI that is connected to my waterfurnace? I dont recall setting it up.

ccutrer commented 11 months ago

Mosquitto defaults to not requiring authentication.

daviss57 commented 10 months ago

Ok, some more basic questions as I seem to have confused myself.

So, in the setup it appears to install on a standalone Pi, I do not fully understand how the integration with Home Assistant works.

Is the intention here if running home assistant, to run two seperate Pi's?

I have currently set it up as two seperate Pi's is there an option to run everything on one?

If running two sperate Pi's then I just set up MQTT on my Home Assistant Server to connect to localhost which should connect to the Broker running on the second Pi once I have followed the setup as detailed in the readme file?

ccutrer commented 10 months ago

I would say It depends on how things are physically available. I run the bridge, Mosquitto, and openHAB on the same NUC, because I have easy access to my heat pump from where my NUC is. If you need your Pi running Home Assistant in a separate physical location, that's fine. Or you can run it all on one Pi. You should just run a single instance of Mosquitto if you have multiple Pis, and then configure the bridge to connect to MQTT on the Home Assistant Pi, or vice versa.