I’m not an expert in MQTT or HA, but I’ve got a simple application called IOTlink that lets you send MQTT commands to my Windows PC. It can do some actions and even broadcast information to your MQTT service.
I use it to automate a process that puts my monitors to sleep when I run my night actions. It’s a pretty basic thing, but it’s been working great for months before the 2025.2.0 update yesterday.
Here’s the automation I use to do that, and it worked perfectly until yesterday. Now, if this action is in a list of actions in an automation, not just the MQTT command not working, none of the actions after it are triggered. It seems like MQTT actions are stopping the automation.
I tried testing this today by making a new automation that turns off some simple lights. When I drop this MQTT action all actions after it don’t get triggered. If I disable the MQTT action, everything works fine, and all the actions before it when it’s active also work.
I’m not sure if something changed on purpose or if this is a bug in 2025.2.0. If someone can help me figure out what’s going on, I’d really appreciate it!
I should say I also have a sensor that uses MQTT to read motion. And that is still working. So the aspect of receiving MQTT commands from devices is still working it looks like the automation to publish maybe the problem here.
