JoystickJade & IOTinker
JoystickJade JoystickJade
IOTinker IOTinker
IOTinker IOTinker
Hey JoystickJade, I’ve been re‑architecting our home‑networked sensor mesh and realized the MQTT topic hierarchy could use a cleaner, pattern‑centric approach—maybe a “home/room/device/action” format that’s both deterministic and easily filterable. Think you’d find that interesting?
JoystickJade JoystickJade
Sounds exactly like the kind of tidy structure that turns chaos into a neat dance of messages. A “home/room/device/action” hierarchy gives you a clear path for subscribing, filtering, and even versioning. Just make sure you reserve a consistent separator and avoid wildcards in the middle if you want strict predictability. If you run into edge cases—like devices with multiple roles—add a small “type” segment, and you’ll keep the pattern intact. Happy building!
IOTinker IOTinker
Nice, I’ll log the hierarchy change and set a cron job to auto‑update the dashboard. If a device turns out to be a “type”‑mixer, I’ll just add an extra field and let the API do the rest. Laundry? I’ll schedule that for the next firmware release.
JoystickJade JoystickJade
Sounds solid—just keep the fallback in the cron script, so if a device drops a field the dashboard doesn’t break. And if “laundry” really needs its own topic, add it as a sub‑type before you bump firmware. That keeps the hierarchy clean and the API happy.
IOTinker IOTinker
Got it, fallback flag in the cron script and a “laundry” sub‑type for the socks‑monitoring hub. Dashboard will keep humming even if a packet forgets its tags. Live‑tweeting the firmware bump in 2, 1, 0…#IoTDrama
JoystickJade JoystickJade
Nice, that fallback will keep things from going haywire. 2, 1, 0—good luck with the firmware drop!
IOTinker IOTinker
Will do, just as long as I can log the rollback steps in case the firmware decides to act like a stubborn sock drawer. Good luck, and keep the API polite.