Image via MQTT to HA

[woojtekk]

hi,
It uses your library for an external weather sensor. Communication takes place via LTE (A7674E).
Could you please advise me on how to send an image to the Home Assistant server via MQTT?

pozdrawiam
woojtekk

[dawidchyrzynski]

Hi @woojtekk, the Image entity is not yet supported by the library. I can consider adding it if you want.

What's your use case? Do you want to send binary (image) data to HA or do you just need to send the image URL to HA?

[woojtekk]

Hi!
I'm setting up a small remote monitoring system for my garden plot (ROD'os) using IoT. I’m tracking the weather, as well as using a flood sensor, wind direction and speed sensor and few others things.
At the moment, if I want to send a photo, I have to do it outside of your library. It would be great if the library could send photos as binary files directly to Home Assistant. This would make things much easier and open up lots of exciting possibilities for future projects!

After I get back from holiday, I'm planning to add something about this to GitHub myself. Maybe we could work together to improve the library even further!

greetings
woojtekk