Auto Discover Vs Manual Entry

Configuration
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I’ve got Hass.IO up and running coming over from OpenHAB and am finding is easier to get running which is great. I have my Sonoff units added in the confi.yml file:

switch:

    - platform: mqtt
      name: "SF_01"
      command_topic: "cmnd/SF_01/power"
      state_topic: "stat/SF_01/POWER"
      qos: 1
      payload_on: "ON"
      payload_off: "OFF"
      retain: true

When i went to do an automation from the web GUI, i was unable to select the device. Looked in the Configuration> Devices andit’s not listed.

Doing some reading found that i can turn on auto discovery using SetOption19 1 in Tasmota. This then meant HASS.IO discovered my device and was listed in devices :slight_smile: YEA!

And my automation would then worked!

Problem is i have other devices like a NodeMCU that i added manually and want to aopear in my automation’s for selection. Anyone see what i am missing?

Thanks in advance

2

if the discovery worked ok, then your MQTT Broker is working fine. It’s then probably an issue with your state_topic.
Have you tried another tool (like mqtt.fx) to see if you receive any messages on “stat/SF_01/POWER” ?

3

If you added your nodeMCU manually, it will not show up as a device.

4

it won’t show up as a device as noted above but you can still use it in any automation you want by referencing it’s entity_id.