Home Assistant Sonoff Tasmota & Alexa MQTT issues

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Hi there,

Hoping someone can clear something up for me. I recently reflashed a few of my Sonoff devices with the Tasmota firmware as it includes Alexa integration out of the box as I wanted to remove Fauxmo from my HA Pi.

The issue is this. I can get Alexa to change the state of the Sonoff device, however, I believe that Home Assistant is changing the device back to its former state - this maybe linked to my mqtt config. Included below are a portion of the mqtt config and the log entry from the Sonoff. At 14:58 Alexa has been told to turn on the Sonoff and at 15:04 I believe that Home Assistant is restoring the previous status. Note although it states that it’s connected/reconnected the power hasn’t been removed at any point from the Sonoff. Any help appreciated.

  - platform: mqtt
    name: "sonoff-s20.166"
    friendly_name: Spare S20
    state_topic: "stat/sonoff-s20.166/POWER"
    command_topic: "cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/POWER"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    retain: true

14:58:54 HTP: WeMo basic event
14:58:54 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/RESULT = {“POWER”:“ON”}
14:58:54 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/POWER = ON
14:58:55 CFG: Saved to flash at F4, Count 144, Bytes 1648

15:03:56 WIF: Checking connection…
15:03:56 WIF: Connected
15:03:56 HTP: WeMo setup
15:04:03 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.127:8308
15:04:05 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.127:8308
15:04:07 HTP: WeMo setup
15:04:10 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.200:59000
15:04:11 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.200:59000
15:04:13 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.200:59000
15:04:29 UPP: Multicast disabled
15:04:29 MQT: Attempting connection…
15:04:32 MQT: Connected
15:04:32 MQT: tele/sonoff-s20.166/LWT = Online (retained)
15:04:32 MQT: cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/POWER =
15:04:32 MQT: Subscribe to cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/#
15:04:32 MQT: Subscribe to cmnd/sonoffs/#
15:04:32 MQT: Subscribe to cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/#
15:04:33 UPP: Multicast (re)joined
15:04:33 RSL: Received Topic cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/POWER, Data Size 3, Data OFF
15:04:33 RSL: Group 0, Index 1, Command POWER, Data OFF
15:04:33 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/RESULT = {“POWER”:“OFF”}
15:04:33 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/POWER = OFF
15:04:34 CFG: Saved to flash at FB, Count 145, Bytes 1648
15:04:34 RSL: Received Topic cmnd/sonoff-s20.166/POWER, Data Size 3, Data OFF
15:04:34 RSL: Group 0, Index 1, Command POWER, Data OFF
15:04:34 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/RESULT = {“POWER”:“OFF”}
15:04:34 MQT: stat/sonoff-s20.166/POWER = OFF
15:04:35 UPP: WeMo Type 2, Response sent to 192.168.0.100:35159

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Assuming you mean you turned on either hue or wemo emulation on on the Sonoff there’s no need for your mqtt setup, just discover them as hue or wemo devices in HA like you did with Alexa.

3

You serious? You mean to say I spend the best part of a morning doing the MQTT configs for all the devices?

Regards…

4

Yes, what’s the point in having multiple, conflicting in your case, ways of doing it. Use emulation or use mqtt and life will be so much easier.

If you stick with mqtt, expose the Sonoffs to Alexa with emulated_hue, haaska or the HA skill. If you want to go with emulation use the Wemo or Hue home assistant components dependant on which emulation you picked.