README.rst

home-assistant-mqtt-export

Custom MQTT export component for Home Assistant.

Setup

Put the file mqtt_export.py file in the folder custom_components of your local Home Assistant configuration folder .homeassistant.

Your configuration.yaml file needs an entry for the component including the publishing topic (publish_topic).

mqtt_export:
  publish_topic: "home/states"

Sample output

The component is dumping a lot of information in one MQTT message.

{
   "details":{
      "latitude":46.9432,
      "temperature_unit":"\u00b0C",
      "version":"0.17.0.dev0",
      "location_name":"Test room",
      "time_zone":"Europe/Zurich",
      "longitude":7.6034,
      "components":[
         "recorder",
         "http",
         [...]
         "automation"
      ]
   },
   "states":[
      {
         "attributes":{
            "friendly_name":"Bathroom window",
            "sensor_class":"connectivity"
         },
         "last_updated":"14:10:57 06-04-2016",
         "state":"off",
         "entity_id":"binary_sensor.bathroom_window",
         "last_changed":"14:10:57 06-04-2016"
      },
      {
         "attributes":{
            "next_setting":"18:06:45 06-04-2016",
            "next_rising":"04:56:02 07-04-2016",
            "friendly_name":"Sun",
            "elevation":37.39
         },
         "last_updated":"14:11:30 06-04-2016",
         "state":"above_horizon",
         "entity_id":"sun.sun",
         "last_changed":"14:11:09 06-04-2016"
      },
      [...]
   ]
}

License

home-assistant-mqtt-export is licensed under MIT, for more details check LICENSE.