Hopefully Easy Question - sensors setup in group.yaml showing entity not available

Configuration
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I am very new and trying to setup a mqtt sensor for a sonoff plug.
I have setup a simple example with one item in the config. I tried to include as much as possible. Any help is appreciated.
here is the groups.yaml

washerpanel:
  name: Washer
  entities:
  - sensor.washer_state
  - sensor.washer_voltage
  - sensor.washer_watts
  - sensor.washer_amps
  - sensor.washer_energy_today
  - sensor.washer_energy_yesterday
  - sensor.washer_signal

configuration.yaml

# Configure a default setup of Home Assistant (frontend, api, etc)
default_config:

# Uncomment this if you are using SSL/TLS, running in Docker container, etc.
# http:
#   base_url: example.duckdns.org:8123

# Text to speech
tts:
  - platform: google_translate

sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Washer Watts"
    state_topic: "tele/SNF-Washer/SENSOR"
    value_template: "{{value_json['ENERGY'].Power }}"
    qos: 2
    unit_of_measurement : "W"
    icon: mdi:flash-circle
    availability_topic: "tele/SNF-Washer/LWT"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"

group: !include groups.yaml
automation: !include automations.yaml
script: !include scripts.yaml
# sensor: !include sensors.yaml

mqtt
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  • The sensor’s configuration looks good.
  • The payload published to tele/SNF-Washer/SENSOR looks like it will be parsed correctly by the template: "{{value_json['ENERGY'].Power }}"

Have you confirmed that Home Assistant is connected to the MQTT Broker? Please show its MQTT configuration (remove any password you may be using before posting the MQTT configuration here).

3

Are the “entity not available” messages due to you having defined several sensors in the group, but only have ONE sensor actually configured?

4

did you ever get this figured out, Ive been struggling with it for what seems like forever.

5

What is your issue? OP probably had the issue because he only defined one sensor but added multiple ones that don’t exist to the group.

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I’m having exactly the same problem. I’ve copied and pasted from here https://www.digiblur.com/2018/11/smart-laundry-notifications-with-sonoff.html. ('ll post my config files and any relevant error messages when I get home from today. Only thing I’ve changedi I’ve taken out the stuffsrelate to the dryer as s I won’t be using that . And for the purposes of testing, I’ve commented out all but one of the sensors, and have ledt that sensor uncommented out in the groups.yaml

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Looks like I figured it out. Seems that I had the wrong mqtt topic. I was going with what the code had, /tele/SNF-Washer/SENSOR and I needed SNF-Washer/tele/SENSOR. Once I made that change it all worked.

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Yeah if you use MQTT Discovery it rearranges the topic.
Also I found this week that the sensor information is only reported by Tasmota using the Tele period which defaults to 300 seconds/5 minutes. This means HA may not report the sensor status until the Tele period expires.
I also found that you can do a SensorRetain 1 in Tasmota console to make the sensor status retained so it will be immediately available to HA upon a restart. This may or nay not be what you want… I am using that with temperature/pressure/humidity/lux sensors.