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MQTT Scene

The mqtt scene platform lets you control your MQTT enabled scenes.

Configuration

To enable a MQTT scene in your installation, add the following to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt:
  scene:
    - command_topic: zigbee2mqtt/living_room_group/set

Previous configuration format

Configuration Variables

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availability list (Optional)

A list of MQTT topics subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates. Must not be used together with availability_topic.

payload_available string (Optional, default: online)

The payload that represents the available state.

payload_not_available string (Optional, default: offline)

The payload that represents the unavailable state.

topic string Required

An MQTT topic subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates.

value_template template (Optional)

Defines a template to extract device’s availability from the topic. To determine the devices’s availability result of this template will be compared to payload_available and payload_not_available.

availability_mode string (Optional, default: latest)

When availability is configured, this controls the conditions needed to set the entity to available. Valid entries are all, any, and latest. If set to all, payload_available must be received on all configured availability topics before the entity is marked as online. If set to any, payload_available must be received on at least one configured availability topic before the entity is marked as online. If set to latest, the last payload_available or payload_not_available received on any configured availability topic controls the availability.

availability_template template (Optional)

Defines a template to extract device’s availability from the availability_topic. To determine the devices’s availability result of this template will be compared to payload_available and payload_not_available.

availability_topic string (Optional)

The MQTT topic subscribed to receive availability (online/offline) updates. Must not be used together with availability.

command_topic string (Optional)

The MQTT topic to publish payload_on to activate the scene.

enabled_by_default boolean (Optional, default: true)

Flag which defines if the entity should be enabled when first added.

entity_category string (Optional, default: None)

The category of the entity.

icon icon (Optional)

Icon for the scene.

name string (Optional, default: MQTT Scene)

The name to use when displaying this scene.

object_id string (Optional)

Used instead of name for automatic generation of entity_id

payload_available string (Optional, default: online)

The payload that represents the available state.

payload_not_available string (Optional, default: offline)

The payload that represents the unavailable state.

payload_on string (Optional, default: ON)

The payload that will be sent to command_topic when activating the MQTT scene.

qos integer (Optional, default: 0)

The maximum QoS level of the state topic. Default is 0 and will also be used to publishing messages.

retain boolean (Optional, default: false)

If the published message should have the retain flag on or not.

unique_id string (Optional)

An ID that uniquely identifies this scene entity. If two scenes have the same unique ID, Home Assistant will raise an exception.

Make sure that your topic matches exactly. some-topic/ and some-topic are different topics.

Examples

In this section, you will find some real-life examples of how to use the MQTT Scene.

Full configuration

The example below shows a full configuration for a scene.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt:
  scene:
    - unique_id: living_room_party_scene
      name: "Living Room Party Scene"
      command_topic: "home/living_room/party_scene/set"
      availability:
        - topic: "home/living_room/party_scene/available"
      payload_on: "ON"
      qos: 0
      retain: true

Use with a JSON Payload

The example below shows a configuration using a JSON payload.

# Example configuration.yaml entry
mqtt:
  scene:
    - name: Living Room Blue Scene
      unique_id: living_room_blue_scene
      command_topic: "home/living_room/set"
      payload_on: '{"activate_scene": "Blue Scene"}'