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Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker by nathan_f77 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @03:44PM (#28698892)
I've learned a lot about MQTT while setting up Home Assistant, and Mosquitto is a pretty important part of my Home Assistant installation. I use it to control all of my Zigbee devices via "zigbee2mqtt" (buttons, switch modules, etc.), and also a smart kettle running Tasmota [1]. I also added a little patch to Tasmota [2] so that my kettle responds with `418 I'm a teapot` [3]

[1] https://tasmota.github.io/docs

[2] https://github.com/ndbroadbent/Tasmota/commit/bbcf57faffbf5b...

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

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Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker by seidoger on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:41PM (#28699630)
Prime use-case for HTTP 418!
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Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker by SV_BubbleTime on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:44PM (#28700397)
People always want that for teapots. I have a device that uses it as an indication it’s internal data shouldn’t be trusted (some unknown error).

I have it respond with 418 as “I taste colors and the government spies on you with the ground in your house wiring”.

I like it for that more than actual tea pots which is far too on the nose.

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Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker by Something1234 on Thursday September 30, 2021 @02:28PM (#28709479)
What kind of device might have internal data that cannot be trusted?
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Re:Mosquitto: An open-source MQTT broker by matttrotter on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @04:49PM (#28699730)
Cool stuff and inspiring. Have a website or GitHub about your home automation projects? I checked out your blog, and the raspberry pi microwave was pretty sweet.
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