I am going to begin by saying that there most likely is a published solution here, but I have not been able to correctly identify it. I do aplogise if this has been posted and answered previously.
now, coming back to the topic at hand, I am struggling with my first installation of both TrueNAS Scale and the apps for Home Assistant, Mosquitto and ZigBee2MQTT. namely, I have successfully installed TrueNAS Scale, configured everything according to my wishes and moved on to installing Home Assistant app, the Mosquitto MQTT broker and the ZigBee2MQTT app, configured them all together with authentication and they are all almost working good except that I cannot see any events in Home Assistant once any actions are happening with the ZigBee devices configured inside ZigBee2MQTT.
now, to add more context, in the HA MQTT settings I can successfully see all MQTT events using the zigbee2mqtt/# topic. the problem is that any new ZigBee device added simply does not appear in Home Assistant nor any action like button push or ON/OFF actions triggered from ZigBee2MQTT.
according to my understanding, I must have not properly configured the Discovery prefix, Birth message topic and Will message topic and I would really appreciate any pointers in this direction or any other mistakes that I might have inadvertently made during this setup and configuration.
I hope my question makes sense and am happy to reply with any relevant details in order to be able to move forward and enjoy the great power of Home Assistant.
considering that I have installed both Home Assistant and ZigBee2MQTT using TrueNAS apps, no I have not. I would love to do that, but I have no idea where I can do that now.
I will look into the ZigBee2MQTT deployment and see where I can add the homeassistant: true option.
thank you.
LE: I have tried, but since I have no idea where to insert the homeassistant: true setting, the only thing I have succeeded was breaking my ZigBee2MQTT deployment as seen in the attached picture.
PS: the xxx is my awkward way of masking sensitive information.
manually adding homeassistant: true is out of the question since it would defeat the entire point of using a Helm Chart to deploy these containers.
my main challenge at this time is figuring out where in the TrueNAS Scale I can add the homeassistant: true option before the system is building this configuration.yaml file that is directing the container’s behaviour.