Hi everyone, I have a relatively developed Home Assistant setup at home and now I am just playing around with Maker to get familiar with Ignition and what it can maybe do in a future work capacity. I want to connect my Maker gateway to my HA MQTT broker which has several devices publishing data to it. I have installed the mqtt engine module in maker and setup the server, it says ‘Connected’ but I don't see any folder called ‘MQTT Engine’ only ‘MQTT Tags’ in the tag browser of a new project. The MQTT Tags folder contains two folders, Alarm Metrics and PLC 1. Where do I find my HA broker tags? I can see in MQTT Explorer the HA broker is up and working. Just not sure how to get the HA broker topics connected and seen as Tags in Maker, or if this is even possible,
Thank you
The MQTT Engine tags will be under your tag providers drop down just above the tag list in the tag browser pane.
Thanks Michael for the reply, I have attached a screenshot of my test project showing the MQTT Engine dropdown selected and the Tag Browser. Not seeing any of my topics in here, maybe the connection to the broker is not done correctly. Although it does say Connected in the Gateway under MQTT Engine server.
Are you able to connect to the broker using MQTT Explorer? How is your engine set up? Do you have custom namespaces set up? I believe by default it only adds tags for SparkplugB topics which most home IoT devices don't use (I've never seen one use it).
Not had a chance to look into this until now but I think it's as you say the mqtt in home assistant doesn't use sparkplug b and none of the smart home devices I have connected to it seem to either so I guess that is that! I can't use Maker to connect to my Home Assistant broker it seems..
You can, but it's just not the default. Default is SparkplugB, but you will need to use a custom namespace to get standard/vanilla MQTT to work.
