Home Assistant

MQTT Statestream

The mqtt_statestream component publishes state changes in Home Assistant to individual MQTT topics.

To enable MQTT Statestream in Home Assistant, add the following section to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt_statestream:
  base_topic: homeassistant
  publish_attributes: true
  publish_timestamps: true

Configuration variables:

  • base_topic (Required): Base topic used to generate the actual topic used to publish.
  • publish_attributes (Optional): Publish attributes of the entity as well as the state. Default is false.
  • publish_timestamps (Optional): Publish the last_changed and last_updated timestamps for the entity. Default is false.
  • exclude (Optional): Configure which components should be excluded from recordings. See Include/Exclude section below for details.
    • entities (Optional): The list of entity ids to be excluded from recordings.
    • domains (Optional): The list of domains to be excluded from recordings.
  • include (Optional): Configure which components should be included in recordings. If set, all other entities will not be recorded.
    • entities (Optional): The list of entity ids to be included from recordings.
    • domains (Optional): The list of domains to be included from recordings.

Operation

When any Home Assistant entity changes, this component will publish that change to MQTT.

The topic for each entity is different, so you can easily subscribe other systems to just the entities you are interested in. The topic will be in the form base_topic/domain/entity/state.

For example, with the example configuration above, if an entity called ‘light.master_bedroom_dimmer’ is turned on, this component will publish on to homeassistant/light/master_bedroom_dimmer/state.

If that entity also has an attribute called brightness, the component will also publish the value of that attribute to homeassistant/light/master_bedroom_dimmer/brightness.

All states and attributes are passed through JSON serialization before publishing. Please note that this causes strings to be quoted (e.g., the string ‘on’ will be published as ‘“on”’). You can access the JSON deserialized values (as well as unquoted strings) at many places by using value_json instead of value.

The last_updated and last_changed values for the entity will be published to homeassistant/light/master_bedroom_dimmer/last_updated and homeassistant/light/master_bedroom_dimmer/last_changed, respectively. The timestamps are in ISO 8601 format - for example, 2017-10-01T23:20:30.920969+00:00.

Include/exclude

The exclude and include configuration variables can be used to filter the items that are published to MQTT.

1. If neither exclude or include are specified, all entities are published.

2. If only exclude is specified, then all entities except the ones listed are published.

# Example of excluding entities
mqtt_statestream:
  base_topic: homeassistant
  exclude:
    domains:
      - switch
    entities:
      - sensor.nopublish

In the above example, all entities except for switch.x and sensor.nopublish will be published to MQTT.

3. If only include is specified, then only the specified entries are published.

# Example of excluding entities
mqtt_statestream:
  base_topic: homeassistant
  include:
    domains:
      - sensor
    entities:
      - lock.important

In this example, only sensor.x and lock.important will be published.

4. If both include and exclude are specified then all entities specified by include are published except for the ones specified by exclude.

# Example of excluding entities
mqtt_statestream:
  base_topic: homeassistant
  include:
    domains:
      - sensor
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.noshow

In this example, all sensors except for sensor.noshow will be published.