Discovery of MQTT

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,
I am using the latest version of HA and HassIO with RP3. I installed Mosquitto broker and can see my Tasmota Sonoff devices connected and also HA.
I don’t see but I can’t see the sonoffs in the integration and as a entinty under HA.

any idea what could be the problem?
the log for Mosquitto is

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I’m rather new to this too… so apologize if you know this. Did you enable “SetOption19” on your Sonoff Tasmota devices?
Info --> https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Home-Assistant
This seems to work well for me. Devices show up almost immediately in HA (e.g., https://192.168.1.xxx:8123/states).
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thanks it didn’t work. I used manual configuration instead.

4

@Ophir_Fux
What did you use for manual config? I got mine to work with the auto config “SetOption19” but I wanted to change to manual so that I understood how it was working. I can’t get the manual settings to work.
I have it set like this
light:

  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Basement 2”
    command_topic: “Basement2/POWER”
    state_topic: “Basement2/STATE”
    brightness_command_topic: “Basement2/Dimmer”
    brightness_state_topic: “Basement2/STATE”

I also tried with
light:

  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Basement 2”
    command_topic: “cmdn/Basement2/POWER”
    state_topic: “stat/Basement2/STATE”
    brightness_command_topic: “cmdn/Basement2/Dimmer”
    brightness_state_topic: “stat/Basement2/STATE”

neither seem to work.

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That’s why you dont see them in the integration.

6

I used the manual approach after giving up the automatic option.

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I used:

switch:

  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Sonoff power”
    state_topic: “sonoff/stat/RESULT”
    value_template: “{{ value_json.POWER }}”
    command_topic: “sonoff/cmnd/POWER”
    availability_topic: “sonoff/tele/LWT”
    qos: 1
    payload_on: “ON”
    payload_off: “OFF”
    payload_available: “Online”
    payload_not_available: “Offline”
    retain: false

I changed the order of prefix/topic because my sonoff configuration was in different order.

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So, dumb question… where do you put this "switch: " stuff in the previous post? configuration.yml? I suspect this is qhy the mqtt add-on is seeing my four sonoff basic’s, but HA never sees the devices??

very frustrated because there isn’t one post out there that explains how to do this well.

help…thanks all.