A simple C++ library to model the homie convention for use with Mongoose OS.
The other implementations I found didn't seem to match well what I wanted to do. I noticed especially with Mongoose OS on ESP8266 that I needed to pace publication. When I tried to send a bunch of messages all at once it didn't work, it seemed to saturate the networking buffer or someothing.
Update: I learned that increasing the mqtt.max_queue_length config setting to match my burst of messages gave much better results and much simpler code than trying to pace message publication with a list or vector. I may still need to consider it for devices that have a larger homie message tree.
The purpose of this library is to provide a model to generate and manage a set of homie-style messages. Publishing the messages is left to the caller to coordinate.
This requires C++ and its standard template libs. It was designed for my Mongoose OS projects, but it has no dependencies on Mongoose OS itself. The github repository layout is defined by the Mongoose OS library requirements.
Create a homie::Device object, add homie::Node objects to the device, and add homie::Property objects to the node. Call homie::Device::introduce to build a comprehensive list of messages that you'll want to publish initially.
Have a look at the unit tests.
Feel free to make pull requests. You can get faster turnaround by building and testing locally with cmake :
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make
./test_prog