Hi everyone! ![]()
We know that Home Assistant has a particularly rich ecosystem of integrations. To allow automatic device addition, they have defined a custom MQTT protocol: the Home Assistant Discovery.
Many interesting projects implement it, for example:
- RFX2MQTT: Controlling shutters via RFXCom.
- OpenMQTTGateway: A multi-protocol gateway (BLE, 433 MHz, infrared, LoRa…) to flash on ESP32/ESP8266, which publishes its own discovery info.
- Theengs Gateway: Decodes Bluetooth Low Energy sensors (Xiaomi, plant sensors, thermometers…) and exposes them via discovery.
- ESPHome: Mostly known for its native API, but also handles MQTT Discovery for setups without HA.
- ecowitt2mqtt: Ecowitt weather stations to MQTT with discovery.
- rtl_433: (+ MQTT bridge) Captures 433 MHz sensors and publishes them with discovery.
What if we could use all these integrations, without any modification, directly in the MQTT Virtual Devices integration of Gladys?
This is exactly what this new feature, developed by Fable 5, proposes! ![]()
A new Discovery tab appears in the MQTT Virtual Devices integration:
With one click, you can add devices exposed on your MQTT broker by these Home Assistant integrations.
To try it yourself, here is a Docker image:
gladysassistant/gladys:mqtt-home-assistant-discovery
To launch it, follow this tutorial: Tutoriel: Lancer une image Docker de test
Don’t hesitate to give me your feedback! ![]()
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