Cover sensor not retaining status

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Morning all,

So I’ve been at this for nearly 2 days and I’ve read every post I can find but getting nowhere.

I have a Tasmota relay board which controls opening and closing 3 doors and it also has 3 sensors to detect if the door is open or not. This has been working fine until a recent HA update where I had to move the yaml under mqtt. The buttons are working fine but on restart of HA they report as unknown/unavailable.
I have tried playing with powerretain, switchretain etc as described in The Hookup video.

mqtt:
  broker: 192.168.*.**
  discovery: true
  username: admin
  password: !secret
  discovery_prefix: homeass
  cover:
    - name: "GarageDoor1"
      state_topic: "cmnd/doorstate/POWER1"
      command_topic: "cmnd/GarageDoor/POWER1"
      payload_open: "ON"
      payload_close: "ON"
      payload_stop: "ON"
      state_open: "ON"
      state_closed: "OFF"
      optimistic: false
      retain: false

    - name: "GarageDoor2"
      state_topic: "cmnd/doorstate/POWER2"
      command_topic: "cmnd/GarageDoor/POWER2"
      payload_open: "ON"
      payload_close: "ON"
      payload_stop: "ON"
      state_open: "ON"
      state_closed: "OFF"
      optimistic: false
      retain: false

    - name: "GarageDoor3"
      state_topic: "cmnd/doorstate/POWER3"
      command_topic: "cmnd/GarageDoor/POWER3"
      payload_open: "ON"
      payload_close: "ON"
      payload_stop: "ON"
      state_open: "ON"
      state_closed: "OFF"
      optimistic: false
      retain: false

Any advice or pointers to a post I may have missed would be greatly appreciated.

2

You need to get tasmota to send the state messages with the retained flag set.

3

Thanks for the reply. That’s the road I’ve been looking at.
For some reason, when I try and use the StateRetain cmd in the tasmota console it comes back with command unknown. I’m using tasmota 9.1.0

EDIT: looks like the firmware needs updating to use this command so will try that next

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UPDATE:
I have upgraded to the latest tasmoto and have the stateretain set to on but still not working.
Is there a way to do an automation each time HA starts to get the status of the door sensor? Or just get it default to closed since they normally are?
It’s a bit frustrating when everything is working fine and update breaks something that takes hours to fix.
All other lights and switches working no problem, just these 3 door sensors.

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I’m having the same issue, StateRetain and StatusRetain returns ‘command unknown’ via MQTT and console. Strange I haven’t had this issue with Tasmota before.