easy-mqtt-handler

Three years ago A. Zeil published here on Hacker News their Easy MQTT Handler [0], a multi platform desktop tray app to glue Home Assistant to PC, to enable executing arbitrary executable commands on the PC from Home Assistant. The single-exe approach and ease of use got me hooked from day one. Served me flawlessly all these years. Recently, however, I had the need to expand the functionality, and given there was nothing moving on the Github repo for three years, I decided to hard fork it and to continue the development. Hence, Easy MQTT Handler 2 now brings a bunch of new features, amongst them, the ability to SEND data to Home Assistant on start up turning it into HA entity on the fly. This is useful to announce various states from the PC to Home Assistant as needed. My use case that prompted me to fork is to be able to multi boot a PC

Hey HN. I wanted to share my pet project and first open-source contribution with everyone here! Here's a summary of what the tool does: The tool was mainly developed to provide an easy way to integrate Personal Computers into Home Automation and offers a simple, but functional, GUI to connect to an MQTT Broker and listen to a topic. The user is able to define commands and parameters that should be part of the payload of the MQTT messages received from the broker. For each command/parameter combination the user can then define an executable that should be launched once a certain command/parameter combination is received. The tool is neatly integrating into the users' environment by sitting in the tray area as a tray icon. It comes with a Qt5-based GUI and is licensed under the GPLv3+. If you have any questions about, just ask! Thanks.