NetAlertX/docs/HOME_ASSISTANT.md

Overview

PiAlert comes with MQTT support, allowing you to show all detected devices as devices in Home Assistant. It also supplies a collection of stats, such as number of online devices.

🧭 Guide

💡 This guide was tested only with the Mosquitto MQTT broker

1. Enable Mosquitto MQTT in Home Assistant by following the documentation

2. Configure a user name and password on your broker.

3. Note down the following details that you will need to configure PiAlert:

• MQTT host url (usually your Home Assistant IP)
• MQTT broker port
• User
• Password

4. Ope the PiAlert > Settings > MQTT settings group

• Enable MQTT
• Fill in the details from above
• Fill in remaining settings as per description

📷 Screenshots