telldus-mqtt

Telldus - MQTT converter Home assistant compatible. Optional user defined MQTT topic mapping still wtih home assistant support.

Configuration

There are two json files:

/etc/telldus-mqtt/telldus-mqtt.json
/etc/telldus-mqtt/telldus-mqtt-homeassistant.json

The home assistant topics are required to self detect telldus activity, but the default topics are very long and not mapped to its physical meaning.
To do this there is topic-translation that maps the home automation telldus topics to user defined topics that has a physical meaning. Additional short form name for correspondance to how sensor/device should be presented in home assistant.

There is an alternate approach if the mqtt topics are of no interest, to just live with the long topics and add name in home assistant software instead.

MQTT broker

The file

/etc/telldus-mqtt/telldus-mqtt.json

Has host, username and password for MQTT broker that must be configured.

Build / Install

Openwrt install

opkg update
opkg install telldus-mqtt

At install daemon is already enabled and started. Manual steps for the same.

service telldus-mqtt enable
service telldus-mqtt start

To test-run telldus-mqtt and check output run

telldus-mqtt --nodaemon --debug

To check service output

logread | grep telldus-mqtt

To check output from remotes you can check the output with --raw flagrun

telldus-mqtt --nodaemon --raw

Ubuntu build

Install mosquitto, ubuntu 20.04

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mosquitto-dev/mosquitto-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mosquitto mosquitto-dev

Install locations

• /usr/bin/
• /usr/sbin/
• /usr/includemosquitto.h
• /etc/mosquitto/

Install mosquitto, ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt install mosquitto libmosquitto-dev

Install depends if needed

sudo apt install pkg-config libconfuse-dev libftdi-dev libcjson-dev

Build and install telldus-core

git clone [email protected]:PeterFromSweden/telldus.git
cd telldus/telldus-core
cmake -B build
cmake --build build
sudo cmake --install build

Install locations -- TODO: change install prefix to /usr

• /usr/local

To fix library path (if troublesome)

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

Build telldus-mqtt

cd <telldus-mqtt>
cmake -B build
cmake --build build

Run telldus-mqtt...

S### Install telldus-mqtt

sudo cmake --install build

Install cJson

sudo apt install libcjson-dev

Windows 11 / Visual Studio 2022

Install vcpkg

https://vcpkg.io/en/getting-started.html

c:
cd \
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg && bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

Install vcpkg packages

vcpkg install cJson
vcpkg install pthreads
vcpkg integrate install

Mosquitto install

Mosquitto can be installed with vcpkg but this is slow and MAY have problem with threads. There is an installer that can be used:

https://mosquitto.org/download/

Install telldus

TelldusCenter-2.1.2.exe
http://download.telldus.com/TellStick/Software/TelldusCenter/TelldusCenter-2.1.2.exe
NOTE: Browser tricks needed nowadays to download non-https links!

Build telldus-mqtt vscode

Cmake extension used for building and debugging. settings.json:

"cmake.configureSettings": {
        "CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE": "C:/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"
    },

Build telldus-mqtt cli linux/windows

cd <telldus-mqtt>
cmake -B build
cmake --build build

Run telldus-mqtt...

Install telldus-mqtt

Windows: Administrator cmd window
Linux: sudo

cmake --install build