Esphome device not available

Fraschi · March 31, 2022, 10:05pm

Hi,
I have some devices (3) that, randomly, became unavailable in HomeAssistant.
I can ping the device ip, if I restart them or HA nothing change.
The only way to get them working again is to delete them from esphome integration and then re-add them. With that operation they will re-start working correctly again.
It happen with an esp32-cam board and with 2 esp01 on temp/hum board
Any clue on that?
Thanks

tom_l · April 1, 2022, 12:42am

Try reloading the integration instead. Select the device in the integration list if you have more than one then:

There is an issue open for this:

github.com/esphome/issues

ESPHome devices disconnect from Home Assistant until the integration is reloaded

opened 05:35PM - 11 Jan 22 UTC

hawkeye217

Project: Home Assistant stale

### The problem Since updating to Home Assistant 2021.12.7, I have several es…phome nodes (esp8266 boards with a couple of older versions of esphome, 1.14.3 and 1.16.0) that will randomly show as unavailable in HA, and the only way to make them available again is to reload the integration in HA (Integrations -> ESPHome -> select the particular node, and Reload). These few boards in particular are on the far edge of my wifi range. But I've never had them not reconnect back to HA before, and I've never had to reload the integration to get them operable again. I've made no other recent changes to anything except updating to HA 2021.12.7 (from 2021.11.x). I can still access the web portal for each node and see the logs that way, even when they show "unavailable" in HA. This seems to be something new in HA 2021.12.x as I never had issues before then. These nodes have been running reliably for almost a year now. Is this a HA issue? Would this be corrected by updating the nodes to the most recent ESPHome version? Any advice would be appreciated! ### Which version of ESPHome has the issue? 2021.12.3 ### What type of installation are you using? pip ### Which version of Home Assistant has the issue? 2021.12.7 ### What platform are you using? ESP8266 ### Board Wemos D1 mini ### Component causing the issue _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet _No response_ ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt Noticed this after connecting via the web portal and before reloading the HA integration: [E][api:084]: No client connected to API. Rebooting... [I][app:132]: Forcing a reboot... [D][api.connection:604]: Client 'Home Assistant 2021.12.7 (192.168.1.4)' connected successfully! [D][time:040]: Synchronized time: Tue Jan 11 11:24:03 2022 ``` ### Additional information _No response_

There was an issue open for this loss of connection. Upgrading to the latest version of ESPHome and recompiling the device fixed this for me.

Fraschi · April 1, 2022, 9:12pm

Yep, reloading does the trick. Now I have to try to reflash both devices…
There’s a command to trigger the device configuration reload?
So I can make an automation out of this
Thanks

zioCristia · July 7, 2023, 9:18am

’m having this same problem with a device, “unavailable” in HA but online in EspHome.

It’s not the first time and I always menage to re-add them back. But now with the new Home Assistant update, which reorganise the “Devices & Services” window I’m not able to remove the old ESPHome integration because the device appears under the window “Devices” but not in the list of the EspHome devices which actually allows to manage the devices and to reload them.

I’ve tried to re-add the integration but it says “device already configured”.

The funny thing is that the temperature sensor is still working properly and sending regularly the data.

Any suggestion on what to do or how can I remove/reload the device from command line?

tom_l · July 7, 2023, 12:34pm

See the vertical three dots icon to the right of each device in your first screen shot (next to CONFIGURA)?

Click on one of those.

zioCristia · July 7, 2023, 3:15pm

I’d like to, but I can’t do it with the “boiler” device as it’s not in the list.
Normally, if I remove the device and then add it back, everything works fine, but this time I have this error…

Is there another way to remove the device from Home Assistant?

I’ve actually tried removing it from config/.storage/core.device_registry. Now it doesn’t appear in either device window, but it’s still unavailable.

I have 3 sensors available from the device that are sending data normally, but all the others don’t appear in the window.

Any idea what could be wrong and how to fix it?

tesco · August 2, 2023, 7:08pm

Don’t know if anyone has managed to fix this?
I had a sensor (CT Clamp on a D1mini) working fine until yesterday.
I can see the logs from the device wirelessly on ESPhome, its all up to date with over the air updates but HA says “Entity not available”… I don’t understand. ESPHome can obvisouly see it, its on my wifi, the sensor is sending readings but HA is no longer seeing them!

JulianDH · August 2, 2023, 7:23pm

Delete the integration of the ESP and then add the integration back again. I have had to do that quite a few times. All the sensors show up then.

tesco · August 2, 2023, 7:35pm

Thanks Julian, how do you delete the integration? used to be 3 dots I think

tesco · August 2, 2023, 7:46pm

Got it! Thank you so much

tesco · August 2, 2023, 7:48pm

Founds what stops it working. Its when you rename the entity!