Custom MQTT mapping

[nrepian]

I've got an MQTT server that integrates lots of things inside our house, plus a C-Bus eDLT which I'd like to use to interact with non-C-Bus devices.

Would you consider expanding cgateweb to include the possibility of publishing custom MQTT topics? For example, I could add an "enable" network variable to the eDLT and map it to "/outdoor/gates" which would then mean I could open my gates via C-Bus.

Just a thought :D.

[the1laz]

It probably wouldn't be too hard to add, I imagine it would just need to listen to different events to the lighting ones. I don't think I'll get around to it any time soon though. If you can't have a go at it, maybe you could somehow use a lighting group for your gate?

[nrepian]

Thanks - I'm a real novice coder, so not sure if I'd be able to come up with a working solution, but I'll have a go anyway and submit something if I can make progress :).

I'll try your lighting workaround in the meantime 👍 .

[PianSom]

Just a quick thought - it should be pretty easy to cobble together a quick-and-dirty for this using Node Red. I have done just that for controlling some dumb switches using MQTT.