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Hisense TV integration for Home Assistant
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Need help configuring mqtt running on a separate server than Home Assistant #51

Closed MnM001 closed 1 year ago

MnM001 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I have this integration working fine with HAOS 10.0 + mqtt 6.2.1 add-on. However there are issues when I apply HAOS 10.1 update - the integration stops working.

I want to try and see what happens when mqtt is running on a different server than HA. So I have built a new mqtt server and installed and configured mqtt. I have added a power plug that uses mqtt and that works fine without any issues.

I want to add this integration (HiSenseTV) to the new mqtt server but I have no idea how to go abut it and need help.

The power plug is a BK7231T device. All I had to do in the plug configuration is to point it to the new mqtt server. Next there is a button in the plug configuration web interface called "Start Home Assistant Discovery". After pressing that button the device appears in HA and works as it should.

I want to achieve something similar with the HiSenseTV integration (eg. have only one mqtt instance (the one running on a different server and not on the HA server) , but for HA to somehow discover the TV via this separate mqtt server - so I don't want to have a mqtt add-on in HA at al).

I will appreciate if anyone can help me achieve the above.

Cheers.

MnM001 commented 1 year ago

All sorted. Built new mqtt server. Configure mqtt on it. Moved the hisensetv.conf file to a location on the new mqtt server and referenced the location in the mqtt config yaml file. Removed mqtt-broker from HA. Reboot HA. Add mqtt in HA and point it to the new mqtt server. All started working. The mqtt server and HA server (and maybe the devices like the Hisense TV needs to be in the same subnet).