1. Yes, it runs in the background, you wouldn't recieve a status update from a subscribed topic otherwise.. No connection issues with my broker, other reviewers must be experiencing "user error".Drains the battery to much.
2. Also, in Tasker, if you've already chosen the topic in the dropdown, why do you also need to type it on the "topic" line as well to get it to work? And if you don't need anything below the line "for non tasker users (while inside the tasker plugin)) why don't you have a "message" line above the line so we can check for that specific message? It's too confusing in there.
3. I really want to use this to it's full potential with Tasker and Home Assistant.Only app that works with tasker! Besides working as a beautifully simple MQTT client, this app has the added functionality of working as both a task trigger, and action.
4. It's not clear to me what the 'Enable' switch on the broker screen is doing - the subscription topic keeps receiving messages regardless of the Enable switch state.
5. Wish there was an option to not keep the connection openFor those struggling after a few hours of troubleshooting I finally found that when I create tasks on my phone with tjis mqtt then import it back to my tablet.
6. Tasker integration is confusing as well -- why do you need to declare variables? -- you can internally define one to use just in case so the user doesn't need to know about them.
7. If the connection is temporarily lost messages won't be delivered to the broker until the app is reopened and the broker reconnected, or the app is forced to stop.
8. Always hangs enabled, if used as a plugin to send a message, and consumes energy (can't be disabled/unloaded manually or when the Automate / Tasker flow ends).
9. You need to go all the way in to the configuration then save with the floppy icon to resync it with this client eventhough all settings are correct it needs double confirmation?Works.
10. It's a shame because this makes it unusable because by the time the messages get to the broker a few hours or a day later the messages are out of date.
11. If I can help in some way to solve this I'll be happy to help.EDIT earlier I tried to be fairer to this app, but I'll change my rating to 1 star - the developer ignores user feedback and hasn't made new releases since early 2019.