qtoggleserver-mqtt 1.3.1

Publish qToggleServer events to an MQTT broker

About

This is an addon for qToggleServer.

It pushes events to an MQTT broker.

Install

Install using pip:

pip install qtoggleserver-mqtt

Driver & Parameters

This is add-on provides an event handler that will connect to the MQTT broker and will push desired events in a specified format.

The message payload is constructed from a template, as indicated by Template Notifications. By default, no templates are specified and the payload will be the template context serialized as JSON.

driver: qtoggleserver.mqtt.MQTTEventHandler

server

• type: string
• default: required
• example: "test.mosquitto.org"

port

• type: integer
• default: 1883

tls_enable

Controls TLS support.

• type: boolean
• default: false

tls_verify

Whether to verify the server-supplied certificate. Disabling this will effectively disable server authentication, ensuring only data transmission encryption.

• type: boolean
• default: true

tls_ca

Full path to CA file, for self-signed certificates.

• type: string
• default: null

tls_cert

Full path to client certificate file, for client authentication.

• type: string
• default: null

tls_key

Full path to client certificate key file, for client authentication.

• type: string
• default: null

username

Indicates a username to supply for authentication. The value is in fact a template that can be customized following the rules described in Template Notifications. The available context is limited however to device_attrs.

• type: string
• default: null

password

Indicates a password to supply for authentication. The value is in fact a template that can be customized following the rules described in Template Notifications. The available context is limited however to device_attrs.

• type: string
• default: null

client_id

Indicates the MQTT client id to use. The value is in fact a template that can be customized following the rules described in Template Notifications. The available context is limited however to device_attrs.

• type: string
• default: {{device_attrs.name}}

reconnect_interval

Represents the interval, in seconds, between two (re)connection attempts to the MQTT server.

• type: integer
• default: 5

topic

Indicates the MQTT topic to which to publish the message. The value is in fact a template that can be customized following the rules described in Template Notifications. The available context can be used to construct topics specific to each device, port, event type, etc.

• type: string
• default: {{device_attrs.name}}

json_context_fields

Used only when template and templates are unset, when the payload consists of a JSON-dumped context. Indicates which context fields to include in the payload. If null, will include all fields.

• type: string[]
• default: null

qos

Sets the QoS MQTT level:

• 0 - at most once

• 1 - at least once

• 2 - exactly once

• type: integer

• default: 0

client_logging

Indicates whether the logs generated by the MQTT client will be added to the qToggleServer logging system or not.

• type: boolean
• default: false

filter

See Event Handlers for details on filtering events.

• type: dictionary
• default: null

template

See Template Notifications for details on specifying templates. Keep in mind that default templates for this driver are null.

• type: string
• default: null

templates

See Template Notifications for details on specifying templates. Keep in mind that default templates for this driver are null.

• type: dictionary
• default: null