My Tuya Converted Tasmota bulbs & switches turn themselves on (Possible MQTT issue?)

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So… my wife hates all things automation in my house, she’s complaining about random events. And after closer look… it appears that she’s not crazy!

I have 3 tuya converted smart bulbs, and 4 Tuya converted Smart switches.
and it appears that some of them go unavailable and then turn themselves on.

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you can see that the state was OFF, hours later it goes unavailable, then goes ON, OFF, ON… WHY?

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I have 2 Ubiquity APs in my 3bed room single home, (main floor and top floor) I don’t think it’s a wifi issue.

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I know the Gosund outlets I just converted running Tasmota cycle power to the plug when they reset due to any changes. I wonder if that’s what’s happening, the question is why is it resetting…

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Can it be due to this issue?

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so I read the other thread, and to be honest, I’m not sure what they are talking about.

Since I posted this, I upgrade all my switches and light bulbs which are having this problem, and they’ll all running tasmota 7.0.0.4 now.

This did not resolve my issue.

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Did you use autodiscovery, or did you set them up manually ? Do you use retain ?

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Manually added.
Retain was “on” but after searching, people were pointing that that might be the issue. My code now says “retain: false” for all my switches and lights.

I also used MQTT Explorer and deleted every “retain” line item I could find.
This had a placebo affect the first night, I thought it was going to be resolved. but it had no change.

of course my wife noticed the “retain = false” right away… as some lights were now ON, but OFF in the app… so what does she do ? physically turns off the lamp.
I told her toggle the switch in the app… but she’s very hard to train.