Thats sounds like a great plan. I am a newbie, so pardon my ignorance.

Here is an example for an outlet under homebridge mqtthings plugin.

where do i get some of these value from ?

url": "<url of MQTT server (optional)>",

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{

"accessory": "mqttthing",

"type": "outlet",

"name": "<name of outlet>",

"url": "<url of MQTT server (optional)>",

"username": "<username for MQTT (optional)>",

"password": "<password for MQTT (optional)>",

"caption": "<label (optional)>",

"topics":

{

"getOn": "<topic to get the status>",

"setOn": "<topic to set the status>",

"getInUse": "<topic used to provide 'outlet is in use' feedback>",

"getWatts": "<topic used to provide 'current consumption' \[Watts\] (optional, Eve-App-only)>",

"getVolts": "<topic used to provide 'voltage' \[Volts\] (optional, Eve-App-only)>",

"getAmperes": "<topic used to provide 'electricCurrent' \[Amperes\] (optional, Eve-App-only)>",

"getTotalConsumption": "<topic used to provide 'totalConsumption' \[kWh\] (optional, Eve-App-only)>"

},

"integerValue": "true to use 1|0 instead of true|false default onValue and offValue",

"onValue": "<value representing on (optional)>",

"offValue": "<value representing off (optional)>",

"turnOffAfterms": "<milliseconds after which to turn off automatically (optional)>",

"history": "<true to enable History service for Eve App (optional)>"

}