In the November 2022 release of ZPE, sockets will be available through the new Socket object! This has been a long-requested feature that was first proposed but scrapped when ZPE became object-oriented. Further to that ZPE 1.10.11 is bringing back the UI object due to issues within the plugin version.
ZPE 1.10.10 already brings the new MQTT object which will soon feature subscription as well as publishing (probably in December). The new MQTT object is actually really awesome and it allows me to automate my house even further than before with ZPE. As always, the core principle behind ZPE is to make features like MQTT more accessible and easier to use, and the socket is no different. Instead of requiring 20 lines of code, ZPE's socket implementation requires just two lines of code.
ZPE 1.10.10 is considerably larger at 1.2MB instead of 960KB as it would have been if not for MQTT. It's still reasonably small, but expect ZPE to get bigger as new features like MQTT get added.
