mcsMQTT integration with WaterFunrnace homie on pi

[jindala]

Hi,
I have integrated mcsMQTT with waterfurnace homie MQTT (by ccutrer). As per ccutrer there are about 20k plus associations and sub topics. I did following.
1. Put IP address of my MQTT server and the port was already 1883. That is it.
2. Went to the association screen and saw 139 associations.
3. When I connect using MQTT explorer I can see many associations, which are not present in the mcs plugin.
4. I was thinking of using some important sub topics to be integrated as devices in my HS, but I don't see those in the HS at all.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Michael McSharry]

Coincedently another thread with similar issue started today at Limit on topic discovery? - HomeSeer Message Board. It is something I need to investigate.

[Michael McSharry]

A resolution is available as described in Limit on topic discovery? - HomeSeer Message Board

[jindala]

Thanks a lot.. I have HS SEL Troller, can you tell me which directory I need to unzip?

[Michael McSharry]

I believe HST puts HS4 in /usr/local/HomeSeer. The two files in the unzipped update goes into /usr/local/HomeSeer/bin/mcsMQTT. A plugin restart is needed for the files to be used by HS4. You can confirm on the first header on the MQTT Page Association Tab for the version number. The version reported by HS4 on the Plugin menu will not change from 5.19.1.0.

[jindala]

Hi Michael,
I did following.
1. Disabled the plugin.
2. Unzipped the files on my local windows machine.
3. Copied the two files to the home directory using winscp.
4. used ssh to login to the SEL and then logged in as root and copied the two files from home directory to /usr/local/HomeSeer/bin/mcsMQTT.
5. Enabled the plugin again and went to the general tab, saw that plugin version changed to MQTT Management for Plug-in Version 5.19.2.2.
6. Went to the associations tab, still almost same amount of sub topics.

What am I doing wrong?


update:
I am all set, I had to restart the MQTT server too. So after that everything started working

[Michael McSharry]

You now have a row on the General tab that allows you to specify the maximum size of the receive queue before you start discarding messages. It defaults to 100. Change this to a larger number to handle the number of messages that the broker could broadcast at the same time. In the other thread the discussion suggested 1000. This should work for you too.

[jindala]

Thanks it worked now, as I mentioned, I had to restart MQTT bridge to bring all the data correctly