MQTT-plugin sending string On/off, not 0 or 1 to Node-red

[HAorso33]

I've been working on my heating project this weekend, but I am stuck at the moment. I hope it is a simple setting somewhere I have missed, and some one can give me a clue how to solve this.
I'm running mscMQTT on Homeseer, and MQTT with Node-Red in a Raspberry PI. In the screen shot below, the blue boxes are working. When clicked they transmit 1 and + to the relay switch, turning it on and off.




However, when turn it on or off from HS it does not work. Error message from Node-Red.
It seems the message is text, not 1 or 0.



Device options, can I change anything here to make it work?

[Michael McSharry]

Try adding $$value: as the Publish Payload Template. The default is the label which will be On or Off.

[HAorso33]

It seems it still sends a string, it also adds a lot more to the VSP list:

[Michael McSharry]

Missing a colon ":" after the $$value, but I dont understand why VSP list changed.unless these were received from mqtt messages. They can be deleted by entering the label in the text box below them. If you do not have success then a work around is to change from Button to Number. This will give you a different UI if you are trying to control from HS GUI.

[HAorso33]

Thanks, the colon ":" did it, I think! It seems to be working now