MQTT discovery Help - Tasmota switches

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi There,

I’m struggling to understand why my sonoff basic switches are not appearing in hass.io

I have a fresh install of the latest version of hassio. I have installed the mosquito addon and created a new user from within the hassio webUI to use for connecting to the broker. I have the latest version of tasmota running on my sonoff basic switches, which are all functioning correctly.

I have adjusted the mqtt settings on tasmota to the hassio user I created and restarted hassio expecting the switches to be auto discovered, but they aren’t :frowning:

I also setup the mqtt integration within the hassio WebUI and set it to auto discovery.

Am I missing something? do I need to adjust any other settings for the switched to be discovered?
I have read and re-read the guidance on the website, which is somewhat confusing.

I’d apprecaite it if someone could point me in the right direction? Thanks

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In the Sonoff Console…
SetOption19 On
To enable discovery.

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Great thanks, thats got it working, not have noticed that hasssio has created them as lights rather than switches. I assume that I need to use the customise.yaml to set them to switches??

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Mine are created as switches. I don’t know why you are seeing them as lights.

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I figured it out in the end from a Reddit post using SetOption 30 on or off changes them from either a light or a switch depending

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