so, kinda unusual problem…
my instalation: hassOS 2.12 with HomeAssistant 0.95.4 on RPi3. yep, I know, there’s newer version, I’ll update right after I clean some climate-related yaml anyway…
I want to make a clean zigbee2mqtt install + configuration. so I deleted all zigbee2mqtt related entities from the register available in configuration page and also removed the zigbee2mqtt addon, made sure that there’s no /share/zigbee2mqtt folder. in configuration/integrations I removed the MQTT integration [saw my zigbee2mqtt entities there] - just as the prompt said to do [as removing from entity registry isn’t enough]. so far, so good. rebooted my Pi and… WTH? entities and integration is back. tried few times, with no luck.
how can I rid of them finally, so I can try with blank slate? why they are coming back?
Allows you to remove devices from the network. Payload should be the friendly_name , e.g. 0x00158d0001b79111 . On successful remove a device_removed message is send.
hm, ok, so if I understood correctly - removing addon/integration/entities won’t work if there are still “ghost messages” in the MQTT network, right? I saw that z2m wiki info, but never thought that it’s needed even after uninstall… especially that this MQTT topic from wiki implies, that z2b bridge is still online - and I even did removed it physically from my Pi
so, inspired by your answer, I went a little bit deeper now, installed MQTT Explorer, checked the topics and indeed, some ghost-entries still were floating. removed whole topics, all that even slighly mentioned z2b and so far so good. looks like my config is empty. now I’ll try to rebuild this.
anyway…