NodeRed with MQTT Discovery

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi,

I am using Hassio 0.78.0

I am using esphomeyaml (installed via the community addon) to create sensors, and letting MQTT discovery automatically create new entities within Home Assistant.

I also have NodeRed installed (via the community addon). However, the only entity IDs that show up in NodeRed are those that have been manually created via the Home Assistant configuration.yaml file. None of the entities created automatically via MQTT discovery show up.

Is this the norm, or is there a way around this?

Apologies if this has been covered before.I have searched, but not found anything.

Thanks

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Hi, I not an expert in esphomeyaml, but in general if you create in MQTT a topic, it can be accessed in Node-RED.
I have several hass instances and I feel the home assistant nodes in Node-Red are buggy, cause they only autocomplete the entities from the first hass instance when creating a new node.

So sometimes I dont use the home assistant node, but the MQTT node…
Try it by subscribing with a wildcard topic and a debug node.

Or did I misunderstand your setup?