I’ve got a Node server that connects to my house alarm. By default it uses MQTT to publish events. I do already have an MQTT broker installed, but is there a way to somehow translate MQTT events to devices in SmartThings?
This way I can have all my motion sensors, door contacts etc in SmartThings and WebCore as individual devices.
You mean like a MQTT bridge?
https://community.smartthings.com/search?q=MQTT
Unless I misunderstood. I thought those solutions turned Smartthings device events into mqtt events?
I need the reverse. An mqtt event to update a custom smartthing device
Mine does this, but it runs on Windows.
This is the official way going forward
The direct-to-cloud MQTT stuff is basically a broker in the cloud & it has specific requirements on messages. AFAIK, you’d need a bridge anyway to do broker ↔ broker communication & to convert messages into ST capability events.
I’m not really familiar with what’s available to bridge an existing broker into ST.
Edit: a quick search turned up this GitHub - stjohnjohnson/smartthings-mqtt-bridge: Bridge between SmartThings and MQTT which seems to have some amount of bi-directional communication. I’ve never used it, so no endorsement or anything, but it seems like it’s worth taking a look at.
I use it and it is excellent. Highly reliable and stable even though it hasn’t been updated in a while. My only hope is that it will still be supported once Classic gets shut down.
well, it looks like it’s not supported in the new app. did anyone find a way to get it to work again?
it’s not even visible in the smartapps page, and I can’t add new devices to it.
yeap, I was following the instructions posted on the home assistant, just to realize I’m not able to add the smart app via the new smartthings apps 