After all, now that we have wireless thermostats, door locks, outlets, dimmers, alarms, garage doors, and motion sensors, it only makes sense to publish events onto a Service Bus. In my case I used Mosquitto in a FreeBSD jail as my broker. My home controller is a HomeSeer. There are MQTT plugins available, but I preferred to use my own hsClient library which is a Java wrapper for the HomeSeer JSON API. I ended up writing hsMQTT, an MQTT bridge for HomeSeer which polls the HomeSeer API and pub...
