mqtt-entity 0.0.4

MQTT client to manage Home Assistant entities via MQTT

MQTT Entity helper library for Home Assistant

A Python helper library to manage Home Assistant entities over MQTT.

Features:

• MQTT entity discovery info (persistent messages)
• Option to remove persistent discovery info
• Availability management
• Manage entities per device
• Entities modelled as classes
• Supported entities:
  • Read-only: Sensor, BinarySensor
  • Read & write: Select, Switch, Number
• Asyncio based

MQTTClient based on paho-mqtt.

Why?

This MQTT code was included in several of my home Assistant addons (SMA-EM / Sunsynk) and finally decided to extract it in a separate library to leverage recent updates & features like discovery removal.

Alternatives options (not based on asyncio)

• https://pypi.org/project/ha-mqtt-discoverable/
• https://pypi.org/project/homeassistant-mqtt-binding/

Credits

@Ivan-L contributed some of the writable entities to the Sunsynk addon project