First Tasmota flash. "Entity does not have a unique id" Ds03

Configuration
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I flashed my first device Ds03 fan/dimmer switch.

I followed a guide and template Ds03 template

However the device does show in home assistant but the fan shows up as a light and no dimmer function to the fan like it should have. I added this from the template site to my configuration.yaml, but I get “This entity (“light.guest_bedroom_dimmer”) does not have a unique ID” for both the light and switch for this new enties for the light and dimmer.
I think I went wrong somewhere.

fan:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Guest Bedroom Fan"
    state_topic: "stat/Treatlife-DS03/POWER1"
    command_topic: "cmnd/Treatlife-DS03/POWER1"
    speed_state_topic: "stat/Treatlife-DS03/speed"
    speed_command_topic: "cmnd/Treatlife-DS03/TuyaSend4"
    qos: 0
    payload_on: 'ON'
    payload_off: 'OFF'
    payload_low_speed: '3,1'
    payload_medium_speed: '3,2'
    payload_high_speed: '3,3'
    availability_topic: tele/Treatlife-DS03/LWT
    payload_available: Online
    payload_not_available: Offline
    speeds:
      - low
      - medium
      - high
light:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Guest Bedroom Dimmer"
    state_topic: "stat/Treatlife-DS03/POWER2"
    command_topic: "cmnd/Treatlife-DS03/POWER2"
    availability_topic: "tele/Treatlife-DS03/LWT"
    brightness_state_topic: "stat/Treatlife-DS03/RESULT"
    brightness_command_topic: "cmnd/Treatlife-DS03/Dimmer"
    brightness_scale: 100
    brightness_value_template: "{{ value_json.Dimmer }}"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"
    retain: false
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hi there…Did you config mqtt in the tasmota device?

3

See the FAQ.

If you use the Tasmota integration instead of manually creating the entities this shouldn’t happen.

4

or you can add unique id to your device definition manually.
Also you can ignore this message. once you took manual control on device definition - it is not needed anymore

5

Late reply been sick so I haven’t checked back. I have to manually assign the entity for the fan or else it shows up as a light with no dimmer function.
I do not have the tasmota integration so I’m gonna try that and see if it gets me anywhere instead of assigning the platform as mqtt would i need to change that to tasmota or would that be handled by tasmota and I wouldn’t need to change my entity configuration?

6

I got into the tasmota console and set option 19 as 0 to disable the mqqt discovery then the device showed up in tasmota 1 device 10 entities. now I’m back to where i have no dimmer function of the fan from the entities tasmota created. the fan shows up as a switch.

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I figured it out. I set the topic in the yaml as the treatlife dso3 but didn’t change the topic within tasmota to match it. once I set them the same it shows up fine without issues

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