Double and uneditable entries for tasmota switches after MQTT auto discovery

[four2six (J.)]

I managed to have my tasmota switches connect to my MQTT / mosquitto broker with making them undiscovered with SetOption19 0 and SetOption19 1 as roughly described here .

But now some of them show up as double entries, some of the entries are editable, some are not (as they show this error). Plus can’t delete them as entities, as they are partly greyed out or show some error messages or are not shown in the entity list at all.

They don’t show up in my configuration.yaml.

I seem to be getting something completely wrong here, can anyone push me into the right direction?
Where are the discovered switches stored if not in the configuration.yaml? How do i get rid of the doubles if i can’t edit their names anywhere?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jan

[francisp (Francis)]

@four2six

Where are the discovered switches stored if not in the configuration.yaml?

Probably in your mqtt broker as retained messages. Use mqtt explorer ( https://mqtt-explorer.com/ ) to delete them.

[four2six (J.)]

thank you, that did give me a good place to look and try to understand what is going on.

weirdly one device registers just fine, these are the settings:

this one doesn’t register at all…

even though it shows up in MQTT Explorer, but with multiple entries:

not sure what’s going on.