Lost most of my switch entities

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Hi all. I’m running three docker containers on a Rasperry Pi 3: one for Home Assistant, one for Zigbee2mqtt and one for Mosquitto. I was using old versions of these components (back from 2021) until last week, when I decided to upgrade everything to the latest version.
So I updated. Home assistant needed some configuration changes (totally expected), which I applied, and now most things work. The problem is that devices that should be toggleable, don’t show as switches anymore.

Specifically:

  • I’ve got a Sonoff BASICZBR3, which shows up in Zigbee2mqtt and I can even toggle it on and off through the z2m frontend. However, this device appears to have only one entity in HA, which corresponds to linkquality. No switch entity.
  • I also have a Blitzwolf SHP-15 smart socket, which is listed as TuYa TS011F_plug_3. Same story: I can toggle it through the z2m frontend, but no switch appears in HA.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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This could be an issue with your mqtt broker not retaining (or publishing retained) messages. See: messages are no longer retained with 2.0.16+ (with a lot of reained topics?) · Issue #2887 · eclipse/mosquitto · GitHub

Try reverting to Mosquitto Broker v2.0.15.

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Hi, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, the problem remains after downgrading mosquitto to v2.0.15.

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Use MQTT explorer to see what discovery topics are sent to your broker by Zigbee2Mqtt.

They will be under the homeassistant topic.

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Hi, I installed MQTT Explorer and connected to my mosquitto instance.
I found the missing switch, under the homeassistant topic:

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Still, Home Assistant does not display the switch in the entities list… I really don’t understand what’s going on :frowning:

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Ok, I figured this out! I’m on Home Assistant 2023.6.3, which is not the latest version (somehow the image/tag “homeassistant/raspberrypi3-homeassistant:stable” downloads that version instead of the latest one). So based on that, I had to downgrade Z2M to version 1.32.2, since newer versions require HA 2023.8.0. After downgrading, it works!

I found this information in the following related thread: Zigbee2mqtt and home assistant help - #9 by Tinkerer

Thanks for all the help!

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For some time now raspberrypi3-homeassistant has been deprecated and you should have been using just homeassistant.

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I didn’t know. Thanks for the info!