mqtt-debug

To debug MQTT Home Assistant Discovery issues, you trace publish/subscribe flows and validate discovery payloads against the HA schema. This process identifies misconfigurations and ensures correct device registration for your pool-controller.

The Homie convention defines a standardized MQTT topic structure for IoT devices. Validating Homie conformity ensures clients like Home Assistant can automatically parse device states and attributes without manual configuration errors.

Yes, this MQTT troubleshooting process works with Home Assistant, Mosquitto, and other MQTT clients. It diagnoses publish/subscribe problems across these platforms to ensure accurate discovery payload delivery and device communication.

You validate MQTT discovery payloads by monitoring MQTT traffic and checking the published JSON structure against the Home Assistant Discovery schema. This verifies that topic naming and payload content meet client requirements.

Your MQTT device might not show up in Home Assistant due to invalid discovery payloads, incorrect topic structures, or broken publish/subscribe flows. Tracing MQTT traffic helps pinpoint these exact misconfigurations for remediation.

The best way to trace MQTT publish and subscribe problems is to monitor live broker traffic and validate message payloads against the expected Homie convention and HA Discovery schema, providing actionable diagnostics.