Entities Not Being Enabled After MQTT Discovery

[RexBerry]

Hi everyone,

I’m using MQTT discovery, and while it detects the devices, many of the entities remain deactivated or don’t show up in the UI. It seems like they’re recognized but not fully integrated. Has anyone dealt with this before? Any tips on getting them activated properly?

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Thanks!

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

Hello RexBerry,

Perhaps they are being set-up as diagnostic, meaning they are not enabled by default. This is one of the settings available to you.

'ent_cat':             'entity_category',

might help. Perhaps it thinks it’s diagnostic and not enabling it.

I suggest reading this whole thing and perhaps you will find the exact thing causing the problem.

MQTT

Also there is another thread today with the same subject…

MQTT discovery works but leaves entities deactivated

After some research, try and error, I managed to program a ESP32 based sensor that appears over MQTT as device with multiple entities. The JSON discovery data (i.e. for one entity) is as follows: { "name": "Batterie", "uniq_id": "Klima_Ulrich_Batterie", "state_topic": "Klima/Ulrich/state", "unit_of_measurement": "V", "device_class": "voltage", "force_update": true, "enabled_by_default": true, "value_template": "{{ value_json.batt}}", "device": { "manufacturer": "UHU", …

Perhaps comparing notes may be in order.

[ulihuber]

RexBerry ,
the cited tread is mine
And my case is strange, because the exact same device (ESP32, Arduino) and consequently the exact same JSON discovery data works fine on my test system but not on my production. All configurations around the MQTT brokers are - after intense comparing - exactly the same.
It must depend on some other configurations. Or a conflict with existing definitions of sensors in mqtt.yaml. I think I need to temporarily eliminate these definitions even if it will impact my whole home
Uli

edit: I removed all manual MQTT definitions and the problem remains