[Ovmsdev] Home assistant integration

[Robin O'Leary]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 08:50:33AM +0800, Mark Webb-Johnson wrote:
> >> I'd do it myself, but I'm not really familiar with Python so it would be
> >> slow going.
> > 
> > Me too.  I wonder if a first step might be to make the existing OVMS
> > MQTT support more HA-friendly; I think it just needs an option to map
> > '.' to '_' instead of '/' in topic names, and add a suffix.
> 
> Is there a problem with the current implementation (in ovms_server_v3)? Changing “.” to “/“ in metric names.
>
> Is there any difference between monitoring prefix/v.b.soc vs prefix/v/b/soc in HA (or other systems)?

Having had a deeper look, I think metric names are fine the way they are.
Using '/' has the advantage that clients can easily subscribe to a
whole sub-tree of metrics using a wildcard (e.g. '.../metric/v/b/#').

It turns out that only HA's "MQTT discovery" component needs topic names
to be flat---but these names don't actually mean anything; they just have
to be unique within the discovery process.  Metric values are handled
by other HA components like "MQTT sensor", which have no restrictions on
topic names, so they can be the same as they are on the OVMS v3 server.

I updated my script so it preserves the metric topic names:

	https://ovms.caederus.org/mqtt/ha-pub2

The script's job has almost been reduced to crafting the HA auto-discovery
messages.  It is still copying values from the OVMS-v3 MQTT server to
the HA MQTT server ("ovms_sub ... | ha_pub..."), but as there is no
translation going on, that step could be omitted if OVMS and HA were
configured to point to the same server (or if the two servers were
bridged some other way, e.g. using mosquitto's 'connection' option).
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