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ironsheep committed Feb 27, 2023
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| `Name` | (fqdn) pimon1.home |
| `sofware ver` | OS Name, Version (e.g., Buster v4.19.75v7l+) |

## RPi Daemon config.ini settings
## RPi Daemon config.ini settings, [MQTT] section

There are a number of settings in our `config.ini` that affect the details of the advertisements to Home Assistant. They are all found in the `[MQTT]` section of the `config.ini`. The following are used for this purpose:

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- placeholders used herein: `{HOSTNAME}`, `{BASE_TOPIC}`, and `{SENSOR_NAME}`.

**NOTE: author's setup**: I have a farm of 20+ RPi's spread all over my house. They all have identical **config.ini**'s. I ONLY set **"base\_topic"**, i do not set the other two. For the other two the default values work great.

## MQTT RPi Status Topics

The Daemon also reports five topics for each RPi device:
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