I’ve noticed that since a few days, my Home-Assistant isn’t getting the online state of some of my ESP8266 devices.
I’m using the ESP8266 Homie framework for my automations which sends “true” or “false” to an $online topic (example: /home/Light1/$online). I’ve added a few automations to HA using this state but ever since updating a couple days ago, I noticed HA isn’t picking up those topics anymore.
I’ve cleared the topics in question and reset the devices (fresh $online “true” messages appeared), however, HA still shows them as offline. Restarting HA or the Raspberry pi running HA didn’t resolve the issue as well.
Anyone else experiencing something similar?
Note: to get the state of these topics in command line, I need to wrap the topic in quotes. Did HA’s backend change causing these quotes to disappear? and thus no longer able to read these topics?
