How does ESPhome / HASS determine that a device is online?

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I have a perplexing issue - one of my devices (a Sonoff TH10) shows as offline in ESPHome console yet it is online - I can ping it, the sensors are reporting status to HASS and the ‘Show logs’ function works.

Somehow it is getting confused and showing offline image

Thanks.

Richard

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Hi Richard,

The ESPHome FAQ has the answer mDNS but you can change to ping

Hope that helps?
John

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Thanks @skutter - I looked at that page but somehow missed that section - it has sorted the problem.

To save anyone else with the same issue having to search for it, the fix was adding "status_use_ping": true into the esphome config file. After a restart it worked.

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Hi Just in case someone want to know how to activate:

Settings-> AddOns → ESPHome → Configuration → Options → Show unused optional configuration options → ENABLE Use ping for status

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