Help making mochad to work correctly

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Hi, I’m trying to setup mochad in Home assistant to control some lights and switches. I´m using a dockerized version. I’ve manage to kind of make it working but I get this message from the log:

“Setup of platform mochad is taking longer than 60 seconds. Startup will proceed without waiting any longer”

In my experience, the entities star to appear after 2 - 3 hours and then I can control the lights and switches but it´s not ideal to wait that long for them to work.

here my config file:
mochad:
host: localhost
port: 1099

switch:

  • platform: mochad
    devices:
    • address: c5

light:

  • platform: mochad
    devices:
    • address: c1
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz Cuarto de J’
      brightness_levels: 32
    • address: a1
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz Cuarto de B’
      brightness_levels: 32
    • address: b6
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz Cuarto de M’
      brightness_levels: 32
    • address: e1
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz lámparas sala’
      brightness_levels: 32
    • address: b1
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz Lámpara Pasillo sala’
      brightness_levels: 32
    • address: d1
      comm_type: pl
      name: ‘Luz Entrada’
      brightness_levels: 32

What I’m trying to resolve is the long times I have to wait to mochad to work every time I have to restart Home Assistant to load some changes.

Pd: mochad works fine using nc localhost 1099 in console

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We are not running docker and Mochad is still always the last thing to load giving the Setup of platform mochad is taking longer than 60 seconds BUT it doesn’t take 2-3 hours each time. Initially it took quite a while for all of the switches and lights to be recognized but after that it is just really slow loading. We do have weird problems with it every once in a while. Mochad is loaded and running but all of the devices are dead. So I’ve added an automation that checks one device and if it’s not found I stop and start Mochad. I don’t know if this will help you or not but I’ll post the automation yamal.

alias: Mochad switches do not have value
description: use have value template to check
trigger:
  - platform: time_pattern
    minutes: /15
condition: []
action:
  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{ has_value('switch.living_room_led_left') }}"
    then: []
    else:
      - service: hassio.addon_stop
        data:
          addon: 185c312f_mochad
      - delay:
          hours: 0
          minutes: 0
          seconds: 30
          milliseconds: 0
      - service: hassio.addon_start
        data:
          addon: 185c312f_mochad
mode: single
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hi guys

I had a mochad version working for years on a remote RPI3.
As the OS needed an upgrade, I reinstalled a new rpi3, with mochad.
Till I discovered the same issue listed here.
Short story (but long troubleshooting):

  • Version mochad 0.1.17 on old RPI3 → OK
  • Version mochad 0.1.18 on new RPI3 → ERROR above

tried compiling 0.1.17 → Got a bunch of errors…
so I did some not recommended thing, i copied a part from 0.1.18 to 0.0.17 and recompiled (with many other errors), and there you go, it 's working;

so I fear that there are some strange changes between bot mochad versions …

root@DietPi:~/mochad0.17/mochad-0.1.17# cp ../../mochad/decode.* ./
root@DietPi:~/mochad0.17/mochad-0.1.17# cp ../../mochad/global.* ./

note I didn’t check newer versions
https://sourceforge.net/p/mochad/discussion/1320002/thread/9e758b6afc/?limit=25#7c52/2ab7