Made a quick and dirty test, and wit works.

It quite nice if you add the the publish to your SHELL.
Now it updates the device status in MQTT on every run of the cronjob.
Best regards max

Good Day, I'm new to this, so I hope you folks forgive me stupid questions. I have to say overall that thing works great. The installer is good it worked like a charm. :D - One little hurdle was the repeater. I use mine in MESH mode, however I had to remove it to be able to get the devices detected ...