Devices unavailable if offline during a HASS reboot

Configuration
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Hi - some behaviour I am observing is confusing me somewhat. I am hoping you awesome people can confirm whether this is expected behaviour, and hopefully suggest a fix :slight_smile:

If my HASS docker restarts while some devices (entities) are unavailable via WiFI, then those entities will not show in the HASS entities list. It will stay this way, until I ensure those devices are powered on and connecting to WiFi before rebooting HA.

It is mainly media_player entities that I have observed so far - two Panasonic TVs, Pioneer and Onkyo AVRs, and two chromecasts. The docker restart (with these devices powered back up) always reinstates them again.

The reason I am trialling powering them down (via automation), as I was hoping to save power on keeping so many devices on standby while we were not home/away/at work/asleep - but this unwanted behaviour threatens to kibosh these plans entirely. I had intended to power these devices down for at least 3/4 of the time - so trying to reliably schedule everything to be powered up for updates/upgrades/reboots/issues etc is unrealistic.

Is there a way to ensure these items remain in HA, despite being unavailable at time of HA boot?

Thanks!
Matt

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Are you relying on discovery for these entities or are they manually configured?

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I should have mentioned that - the panasonics, pioneer, and onkyo are coded into the configuration.yaml, but yes the casts were discovered originally.

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Sorry to bump this - but it is still annoying me.

Is there any way to force a device to remain, if it is temporarily ofline during a HASS reboot?

Cheers!

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Did you ever find an answer for this? I have a Roku TV configured manually in configuration.yaml. That TV has to be on when I reboot HA.

After I reboot HA making sure the TV is fully on, I can power the TV back off and it responds to commands (such as power on) from HA. It’s just a problem upon HA reboot.

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Not that I am aware. I gave up on keeping devices switched off while I was away.