Belchertown - mqtt topic

[Brice Ruth]

Hey Pat - first off, fantastic skin. Also, fantastic documentation - wowsa. Thank you for putting so much work into this.

One small note - it isn't clear from all the docs that `mqtt_websockets_topic` ought to end with `/loop` -- I used the defaults pretty much everywhere, e.g. under [[MQTT]], topic = weather - but this through me for a loop (pun intended). The websocket connects and all seems honky dorey, but there's no data flowing through. Status in the header is yellow with "connected, waiting for data" instead of what you get when it's working.

Anyhoo - thanks so much for all your work on this, absolutely fantastic!!

Cheers,

Brice Ruth, FCD
Software Engineer, Madison WI

[Pat]

Thanks for the feedback, you're right it may not be totally clear. I'll get it updated in the readme

[Brice Ruth]

Most excellent.

Fwiw, I was moving from an existing setup using a different skin, that I had exposed via nginx + SSL/TLS + LetsEncrypt ... once I had the basic mosquitto server setup, I was able to proxy the requests for wss://* through nginx w/o going through the additional hassle of securing mosquitto.

    location /mqtt {
      proxy_pass http://localhost:9001/mqtt;
      proxy_http_version 1.1;
      proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
      proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
      proxy_read_timeout 86400;
    }

The "path" that you need to proxy through (i.e. "/mqtt) is also not super obvious in any of the docs - I used the dev tools in Chrome to see where it was trying to go and then was able to sort that.

Keep up the great work!

Brice Ruth, FCD
Software Engineer, Madison WI

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[Pat]

That's a new one for me. I'm doing a lot of proxying but never thought about this scenario. Pretty neat!

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[Brice Ruth]

Yeah, I think in the past nginx didn't have the built-in ability to do this, but it was added at some point. Of course that means there's no shortage of outdated info available via Google :)

Brice Ruth, FCD
Software Engineer, Madison WI

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