Home Assistant 101: How to Integrate MQTT Devices

Hello, great video. I have a question about the configuration file. In my configuration.yaml file for HA, I have default_config enabled by default. Do I need to comment out the default_config and build my own configuration.yaml with the integrations I need? Thanks in advance.

Thank you for all the MQTT videos, super helpful channel overall! Keep it up!!

Thanks grate Video. How to get multiple sensors (entities) into one HA device ? I would like to group them together.

Looking for the auto discovery video as well… While not necessarily an auto discovery function, but is one able to publish all devices/entities out of Home Assistant into MQTT devices?

I want to get my Victron data into HA with MQTT, but I'm still lost, LOL!

I was just thinking that XML had some kind of schema that you could embed and look up and that YAML and Jason and MQTT should also and then you mentioned Auto Discovery, so I'm looking forward to that video. It would be nice if an editor for Home Assistant could lookup these formats schemas and offer a little help like the ESPHome YAML editor. I want to spend my time adding my own logic, not figuring out someone else's logic.

finally🙏👋

Looking forward to learning about auto discovery as it’s the one big thing missing from my current project (HUB75 display driven off a Pico W etc). MQTT is awesome. Thanks for the video!

Hello, it was a very nice and explanatory video, as always, thank you very much.

what about devices like the tm1638 if integrated in tasmota? do they expose all their buttons, leds, etc, to HA?

i think a split configuration video would be useful... for example, what about if you have a custom integration with sensors, input_booleans, and so on... and what if the include file for something is put after some entity is created by the integration... is there a reconcile loop, which redo the trip until everything is fine? is the order relevant or not? So, please, do it! :)

Great video. This one and the next one about mqtt discovery sure would have been helpful to me when I was trying to set my esp32 test device up using mqtt discovery. I managed to work my way through it but did get bit by the aduinojson limit of 256 byte payload. I had to change it in the library header to a larger size to get my payload to send to the broker. Thanks for the videos, I have learned heaps from you. Thank you sir.

Joe

Ahhh, now I see some differences between my perception and reality. MQTT is still off in my future, but I now have a much more firm understanding and I am sure I'll return to this video when my turn in the barrel comes up. If it does not offend you I will take this opportunity to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is extremely helpful to a noob like myself.

My home assistant is my wife lol Y’all lost me on this one… programming and coding aren’t my thing. But the vid was interesting

Nice that you explain what MQTT is used for, just for those who are still learning.
I still forget that not everyone knows what every each part is and what it does or even what the acronym stands for.

Thank you for providing such a nice explanation.

Seems you forgot to add the MQTT 101 card in the video.