# Describes the format for available MQTT services publish: name: Publish description: Publish a message to an MQTT topic. fields: topic: name: Topic description: Topic to publish payload. required: true example: /homeassistant/hello selector: text: payload: name: Payload description: Payload to publish. example: This is great selector: text: payload_template: name: Payload Template description: Template to render as payload value. Ignored if payload given. advanced: true example: "{{ states('sensor.temperature') }}" selector: object: qos: name: QoS description: Quality of Service to use. advanced: true example: 2 values: - 0 - 1 - 2 default: 0 selector: select: options: - "0" - "1" - "2" retain: name: Retain description: If message should have the retain flag set. default: false example: true selector: boolean: dump: name: Dump description: Dump messages on a topic selector to the 'mqtt_dump.txt' file in your configuration folder. fields: topic: name: Topic description: topic to listen to example: "OpenZWave/#" selector: text: duration: name: Duration description: how long we should listen for messages in seconds example: 5 default: 5 selector: number: min: 1 max: 300 step: 1 unit_of_measurement: "seconds" mode: slider reload: name: Reload description: Reload all MQTT entities from YAML.