Multiple xiaomi flower redundancy

ESPHome
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Hi all,

I have many plants around the house tracked with mi Flora sensors.

I have setup a single yaml file (with different name as gateway1 gateway2 etc ) with the details of every flower sensor
Issue is that if the same plant is tracked from 2 gateway it creates 2 different sensor (plant and plant_2).

There is a way to avoid it? It would be great so I can move plants around the house without changing yaml in gateway.

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Hi,

In your topic definition what about replacing the gateway name by a ‘+’. In mqtt the + means whatever word and is considered as the single level wildcard.

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so change name from gateway1 to gateway+, right?

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just replace gateway1 by the +

sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "SonoffBridge values"
    value_template: "{{ value_json.value }}"
    state_topic: "home/+/SRFBtoMQTT"
    json_attributes: 
      - "raw"
      - "value"
      - "delay"
      - "val_Thigh"
      - "val_Tlow"
    qos: 1

with the example above you will receive payloads from home/gateway/SRFBtoMQTT and home/gateway1/SRFBtoMQTT

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But I’m using esphome here so sensor are auto discovered.

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uhm

maybe I can create a custom min max sensor for plant and plant_2 values with last mode to avoid this?

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Ok I created 2 different version for every gateway (gateway 1 and 2) and added different name for scouting same xiaomi flowers sensors:

Gateway1

sensor:

  • platform: xiaomi_miflora
    mac_address: 94:2B:FF:5C:91:61
    temperature:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Temperature_1”
    moisture:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Moisture_1”
    illuminance:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Illuminance_1”
    conductivity:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Soil Conductivity_1”

Gateway2

sensor:

  • platform: xiaomi_miflora
    mac_address: 94:2B:FF:5C:91:61
    temperature:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Temperature_2”
    moisture:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Moisture_2”
    illuminance:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Illuminance_2”
    conductivity:
    name: “Xiaomi MiFlora Soil Conductivity_2”

But the problem persist.

If I add both gateways all sensor are available only in the last added while the first one remains without any sensor.

@OttoWinter do you think is an issue on esphome or an error in my config?

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FYI issue is present in latest version but fixed in dev.

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Do you know when this fix will make its way into the latest version? I’ve still got the same issue