Installation differences

Installation
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Hello,

Last week I was testing Home assistant to check if it would suite my needs and how to configure stuff.
I documented everything I did.
So yesterday I moved it to final to replace my old home automation system.
For this I decided to start with a clean slate so I don’t have any left overs from testing.
But I noticed a few difference.
I use HA 5.12 32bit on a Raspberry Pi 3A+. the same I used for testing.
During my testing HA would immediately find my scan and find my LG tv. But now it doesn’t.
I installed Tasmota, during my tests wifi statuses were visible but now not any more.
I’m sure I can enable all this again if I start searching, But why isn’t it added automatically like before?
Also I have 5 tasmota devices.
but 1 is listed under MQTT. the other 4 are listed under Tasmota

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All works, but this is strange to me.

Can someone explain to me those differences or at least 1 of them? To my knowledge I didn’t do anything else then before.

With kind regards Bart

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My guess is that four of your Tasmotized devices are configured like this:

SetOption19 0

and are discovered by Home Assistant’s Tasmota integration.

The fifth device is configured like this:

SetOption19 1

and discovered by Home Assistant’s MQTT Discovery process (thereby included in MQTT integration).

The differences between the two discovery techniques are explained here:
https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Home-Assistant/

Basically, the Tasmota project is moving away from using Home Assistant’s MQTT Discovery process to their own style of device discovery (which is what Home Assistant’s Tasmota integration is for).

EDIT

I currently have only three Tasmotized devices, all use SetOption19 0 (which I believe is the default nowadays) and all three appear within the Tasmota integration.

Screenshot from 2021-03-07 10-24-24

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Thank you
this SetOption19 was indeed the difference, now they are all listed under Tasmota.
do you also have an idea why the wifi status doesn’t appear automatically?

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It’s probably disabled.

  • Go to Configuration > Integrations > Tasmota
  • Click one of the five devices.
  • Look at the bottom of the card title Entities. You should see a message like: +8 disabled entities.
  • Click the message to display the disabled entities.
  • Click any one of the disabled entities, like sensor.whatever_rssi, and you’ll be presented with the means to enable it.
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thanks, you are correct