Devices not shown for topic with v1.1

[georg90]

Thank you for this! I was looking for an easy way to monitor my MQTT sensors and alert me.

However, I am currently not able to get this to work, even though I don't run a special setup..

I am running this as docker. Log seems to be ok, it's connecting to my MQTT server alright - however, there are no sensors being detected. Checking this now for some time and didn't know why it won't work - maybe someone can help?

Janitor config

{
	"Debug": true,
	"LogSize": 1000,
	"Web": {
		"Host": "",
		"Port": 8080
	},
	"Alert": {
		"Telegram": {
			"Token": "",
			"Chat": 0
		},
		"Gotify": {
			"Token": "",
			"Server": ""
		},
		"Exec": "",
		"MQTT": {
			"Server": "mqtt://hostip",
			"Port": 1883,
			"User": "sensor",
			"Password": "sensorpass",
			"Topic": "/janitor/alerts"
		}
	},
	"Monitor": {
		"MQTT": {
			"Server": "mqtt://hostip",
			"Port": 1883,
			"User": "sensor",
			"Password": "sensorpass",
			"History": 10,
			"StandardTimeout": 1.5,
			"Targets": [
				{
					"Topic": "/zigbee2mqtt/#",
					"Name": "",
					"Timeout": 0
				}
			]
		},
		"Ping": {
			"Interval": 60,
			"Threshold": 2,
			"Targets": null
		},
		"HTTP": {
			"Interval": 60,
			"Timeout": 5000,
			"Threshold": 2,
			"Targets": null
		},
		"Exec": {
			"Interval": 60,
			"Timeout": 5000,
			"Threshold": 2,
			"Targets": null
		}
	}
}

docker compose file

  janitor:
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - zigbee2mqtt
      - mosquitto
    volumes:
        - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
        - "[...redacted]/janitor/config.yml:/janitor/config.yml"
    ports:
      - "7200:8080"
    container_name: janitor
    networks:
       - [...redacted]
    image: abali/janitor:v1.1

Logfile

2023-10-15T20:51:10.016978953Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] Starting Janitor v1.1 (build date 2023-09-04T14:49:49+0000, 199fceb)
2023-10-15T20:51:10.017028395Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] (Loaded config: [...redacted...]
2023-10-15T20:51:10.018699157Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] Connected to MQTT server for monitoring at mqtt://localip:1883
2023-10-15T20:51:10.019611551Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] Connected to MQTT server for alerting at mqtt://localip:1883
2023-10-15T20:51:10.019627822Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] (Entering monitoring loop)
2023-10-15T20:51:10.019632393Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] Launching web server at :8080
2023-10-15T20:51:10.019636255Z [2023-10-15 22:51:10] Subscribed to MQTT topics: /zigbee2mqtt/#

mqtt-explorer shows sensors with the relevant topic (zigbee2mqtt)

[a-bali]

You should be seeing messages in the debug log if there is traffic on the subscribed topics. Can you try subscribing to '#' (all topics) and see if anything shows up?

[georg90]

Thank you for this. I actually didn't set the "" around the value for topic in my config.yml (you don't need to, since it's yaml (syntax)). However, janitor is interpreting this differently. Since when I entered # it came as "" in the config I can check in the webinterface. Once I entered "#" it worked and all sensors populated.

I now wrapped my topics with "" and I can see them just fine.

Thanks for pointing this out!

[a-bali]

# is reserved for comments in yaml, so for sure you need to wrap it in quotes.

[georg90]

That is correct, however, it’s still parsing and not throwing an error. Someone handling yaml every day would have noticed… ;-)