Best way to check Zigbee lights after power outage?

Thanks. There’s no explanation about that setting, but I switched it on for a few devices and will see how it behaves in the future.

I thought of adding a feature request, bus as it seems there’s something buggy going on

Add event for HA Restart (to correctly detect power loss) - Configuration - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

@elstupid the retain setting is an MQTT feature. It has to do with ensuring that the last MQTT message is retained so that a read of the queue can always get the last message. You can read more about the retain feature here:

https://www.hivemq.com/blog/mqtt-essentials-part-8-retained-messages/

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