Hi @swissmanu. welcome
the current release is not updated for a while and will probably never except of bugfixes. 
But the project is still active active. The next release will likely break some flows but it needed a facelift and a lot of refurbishment under the hood. I recently pushed a development branch with the redesigned nodes.
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The
homie-devicenode supports now multiple base topics and individual selection of nodes and/or branches. This is mostly finished and will need some bugfixes
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I separated the dashboard stuff in a separate node. As a lot of things changed in the dashboard over time there are a lot of broken features. (Slider and switch are working)
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What will interest you most is the homie-pro node. It is designed to represent Node-RED and other devices on the broker via homie. It is completely redesigned, featuring multi base ids, a mqtt connection per device to have LWT
$state=lostworking,$state=disconnectedon Node-Red shutdown.$stats/uptimeupdates and many more. It lacks a fancy editor ui but benefits from flexible JSON configuration (even via messages):
You can even design your own extensions and mess around with the convention.
I can promise further development and I'm open to any input. But my time is limited so I can't promise fast development. I'm using the old and the new version in my live systems so they work here to some extent. But every implementation is different and there are certainly a lot of sharp edges.
Chris
