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Getting started: - New 15-minute Getting Started guide featuring the two most popular tracks (BLE on esp32dev-ble, RF on lilygo-rtl_433), with broker setup and a verification step - Sidebar restructured around the new-user journey; upload options numbered by ease; Gitpod upload method removed Home page: - VitePress hero with clear actions, larger hero image - How-it-works pipeline diagram shared as a component (responsive via container queries), use-case grid, bigger video tiles without the image lightbox, refreshed press coverage list, functions pills - Support section pointing to Theengs Bridge and github.com/sponsors/1technophile Upload flow: - Decision-oriented upload landing page (journey strip, method cards, comparison table) - Pre-flight checklist and driver troubleshooting on the web installer - Guided environment picker (bridge + hardware wizard) replacing the filter chips, with manifest-verified recommendations - Post-flash next-steps card linking to the portal and verification Board images: - custom_img key in environments.ini and board photos for all web-flashable environments (licenses recorded); private prod_env.ini environments excluded from boards-info.json Corrections: - RF frequency coverage stated as 433/315/868/915MHz - Removed references to the retired compatible.openmqttgateway.com site (BLE list is decoder.theengs.io), the discontinued Theengs Plug, and the private sponsor forum Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TYysQW8tpmt1dWWuzKhTLi Co-authored-by: Florian <1technophile@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Broker
The broker will act as an intermediary between OpenMQTTGateway and your controller, it can be seen as a centralized hub at the heart of your automation system. It carry on messages following a publish / subscribe mechanism.
All the events or commands could pass by the broker.
::: tip Recommended setup
- You use Home Assistant: install the Mosquitto broker add-on (Settings → Add-ons → Add-on store), enable the MQTT integration, and create a dedicated user for the gateway. This is the path followed by the Getting Started guide.
- You don't: install Mosquitto on any always-on machine (Raspberry Pi, NAS, server), it is lightweight, open source and well documented. :::
There are many choices of brokers, here are some of the most popular:
- Mosquitto (Open source)
- Moquette (Open source)
- EMQX (Open Source)
- HiveMQ
- Embedded MQTT brokers (Home Assistant and OpenHAB)
This wikipedia list gives you more details about the different choices you have. This github list seems to be the most exhaustive ones. Here is also some ideas of criteria from HiveMQ.
Once your broker is installed it can be interesting to see the traffic passing to it and to publish data, so as to do that there are several tools available: