Home Assistant

The DMX Core 100 integrates natively with Home Assistant: point both at the same MQTT broker and the device appears in Home Assistant automatically, with all of its presets, cues, dimmers, and switches as ready-to-use entities. No custom component, no YAML — the built-in Home Assistant plugin publishes everything via MQTT Discovery.

The same discovery format is understood by openHAB, ioBroker, and Domoticz, so those platforms work the same way.

What You Get

Home Assistant shows one DMX Core 100 device containing:

In Home Assistant	From the DMX Core 100
Scenes	Presets, cues, and timelines — activate from dashboards, automations, scripts, or voice assistants
Number sliders (%)	Master dimmer, zone intensities, level Control Values, and audio volume
Switches	Audio mute, output mute, schedules (enable/disable), and toggle Control Values
Selects	Selector Control Values, e.g. an audio source picker
Buttons	Stop playback
Sensors	Now Playing — the running cue or timeline

Everything is live in both directions: move a fader on the device and the Home Assistant slider follows; change it in Home Assistant and the device follows. If the device goes offline, its entities show as unavailable until it returns.

Setup

You need an MQTT broker that both systems can reach. Most Home Assistant installations use the Mosquitto add-on; any standard broker works.

1. Home Assistant: add the MQTT integration (Settings > Devices & Services > Add Integration > MQTT) and connect it to your broker, if you haven’t already.
2. DMX Core 100: under Control & Integrations > MQTT, enable the external MQTT server and enter the same broker’s address, port, and credentials. See MQTT.
3. That’s it. Within a few seconds the device appears under Settings > Devices & Services > MQTT in Home Assistant.

Plugin settings

The integration ships as a built-in plugin, enabled by default. Under Control & Integrations > Plugins you can adjust its settings: the discovery prefix (leave at homeassistant unless you changed it in Home Assistant) and per-category expose toggles — for example, hide individual cues from Home Assistant while keeping the dimmers and schedules. See Plugins.

Ideas

• Sunset ambiance — a Home Assistant automation at sunset activates your Evening preset. (Or use the DMX Core 100’s own sunrise/sunset schedules and just flip the schedule’s switch from Home Assistant when you’re away.)
• Movie night — one script dims your other smart lights and pulls the DMX Core 100 master dimmer to 20%.
• Party button — a dashboard button that fires a cue, sets the bar zone to full, and switches the audio source Control Value to the streaming input.
• Presence — when the alarm arms, stop playback and disable the schedules.
• Status — use the Now Playing sensor as an automation trigger, or show it on a wall tablet dashboard.

Troubleshooting

• No device appears in Home Assistant — confirm both systems talk to the same broker, and that the plugin shows as connected under Control & Integrations > Plugins.
• Entities show unavailable — the broker lost the device; check the network and the MQTT settings. The DMX Core 100 reconnects automatically.
• A deleted preset lingers in Home Assistant — it is removed on the next catalog change; if Home Assistant cached it, reload the MQTT integration.