so i have this sensor dht11 hook up to a esp8266, everything seems to be working fine in mqtt explorer i see both humidity and temp reading. i also see this in mosquitto broker log : New client connected from 192.16xx.x.xxx:xxxxx as esp8266_lab (p2, c1, k15, u'mqtt').
but nothing is showing up on the dashboard
#mqtt esp8266 and dht 11
steep hazel
turbid arrow
Assuming you're sing mosquitto as a Home Assistant add-on, and you're publishing mqtt data from your esp8266 to that mosquitto instance, did you update configuration.yaml with the new information so home assistant has entities configured?
proud basin
This is what @turbid arrow is talking about: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/sensor.mqtt/
Also you don't need to mask LAN IP addresses 😄 it's not a security risk
turbid arrow
Example, possibly a poor one:
mqtt:
sensor:
- name: "MyUniqueEntityName"
state_topic: "state/MyTopic"
unit_of_measurement: '°F'
value_template: "{{ value_json.MyTempValueNameFromTheEspDevice }}"
unique_id: UniqueLongHexString
device_class: temperature
- name: "MyUniqueEntityName2"
state_topic: "state/MyTopic"
unit_of_measurement: '%'
value_template: "{{ value_json.MyHumidityValueNameFromTheEspDevice }}"
unique_id: UniqueLongHexString2
device_class: humidity
sleek hill
or you can also publish a configuration of entities . To do that, you need to use: MQTT Discovery: https://rc.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/#mqtt-discovery
Do you consider to use ESPHome? his will make life easier for you, such as uploading changes over Wi-Fi and tight HA and ESP integration. And at the same time, you can still write C++ code as a custom component if needed.
steep hazel
so my trail was to code the esp in arduino ide and then went for mqtt auto discovery in HA