#1 - feature to remove duplicates RF -->MQTT

if you want to avoid duplicate mqtt message received set time_avoid_duplicate to > 0, the value is the time in milliseconds during which we don't publish duplicates

_433toMQTTto433_ESP8266.ino

@@ -1,16 +1,13 @@
 /*
   433toMQTTto433  - ESP8266 program for home automation 
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    Act as a wifi gateway between your 433mhz nodes and a MQTT broker 
    Send and receiving command by MQTT
  
   This program enables to:
  - receive MQTT data from a topic and send RF 433Mhz signal corresponding to the received MQTT data
  - publish MQTT data to a different topic related to received 433Mhz signal
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   Contributor:
   - 1technophile
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   Based on:
   - MQTT library (https://github.com/knolleary)
   - RCSwitch (https://github.com/sui77/rc-switch)
@@ -18,24 +15,19 @@
   
   Project home: https://github.com/1technophile/433toMQTTto433_ESP8266
   Blog, tutorial: http://1technophile.blogspot.com/2016/09/433tomqttto433-bidirectional-esp8266.html
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 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software 
 and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, 
 including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, 
 and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, 
 subject to the following conditions:
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 THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF 
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 Some usefull commands to test gateway with mosquitto:
 Subscribe to the subject for data receiption from RF signal
 mosquitto_sub -t home/433toMQTT
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 Send data by MQTT to convert it on RF signal
 mosquitto_pub -t home/MQTTto433/ -m 1315153
 */
@@ -55,6 +47,13 @@ RCSwitch mySwitch = RCSwitch();
 #define mqtt_user "your_username" // not compulsory if you set it uncomment line 127 and comment line 129
 #define mqtt_password "your_password" // not compulsory if you set it uncomment line 127 and comment line 129
 
+//variables to avoid duplicates
+#define time_avoid_duplicate 2000 // if you want to avoid duplicate mqtt message received set this to > 0, the value is the time in milliseconds during which we don't publish duplicates
+// Time to avoid duplicate
+long lastReceivedRFTime = 0; 
+// string to store previous received RF
+String lastReceivedRF; 
+
 //adding this to bypass to problem of the arduino builder issue 50
 void callback(char*topic, byte* payload,unsigned int length);
 WiFiClient espClient;
@@ -214,6 +213,10 @@ void receivingMQTT(String topicNameRec, String callbackstring) {
 //send MQTT data dataStr to topic topicNameSend
 void sendMQTT(String topicNameSend, String dataStr){
 
+    long now = millis();
+    if ((now - lastReceivedRFTime > time_avoid_duplicate)||(dataStr != lastReceivedRF)) {// conditions to avoid duplications of RF -->MQTT
+      lastReceivedRFTime = now;
+      lastReceivedRF = dataStr;
       char topicStrSend[26];
       topicNameSend.toCharArray(topicStrSend,26);
       char dataStrSend[200];
@@ -223,7 +226,10 @@ void sendMQTT(String topicNameSend, String dataStr){
       trc(dataStr);
       trc("to ");
       trc(topicNameSend);
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+    }else{
+      trc("duplicate found");
+      trc(dataStr);
+    }
 }
 
 //trace
@@ -232,5 +238,3 @@ void trc(String msg){
   Serial.println(msg);
   }
 }
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