I have a lot of devices that I built over the years with lots of ESP32 code. I want to move the reporting of the data from these devices to Home Assistant using MQTT.
To get started, I created some test code for a single device with just one sensor. I studied a lot on the current MQTT device discovery method and tried to implement it. My Home Assistant instance runs under Proxmox and I have a an MQTT broker on the same Proxmox server. I pointed my Home Assistant MQTT to the address of the MQTT broker and can see the data coming into it through MQTT Explorer on HA. Now, how do I find the entity that is my new sensor???
Here in MQTT Explorer, you can see the discovery package I am sending from the device and the first data message “9596”.
Do you see anything wrong with the discovery message format?
When I go to settings/devices/entities and search, I can’t find the new entity which I would think would contain “lp” or “tank”.
What basic thing am I doing wrong here? (three days into trying to figure this out)
THANK YOU
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