Problems with Sonoffs group Topic

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Hey all,

Just started flashing some switches with Tasmota this week. Everything is working fairly well except my automation to get states after a restart. I used the automation I got from from digiblurDIY’s channel (modified slightly):

### HA Start
- alias: Home Assistant Startup Automation
  trigger:
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
  # Get Sonoff States
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: "cmnd/sonoffs/backlog"
      payload: "power1 ;power2 ;power3 ;power4 ;power5; dimmer; state; power "

What’s strange is I can see the group topic published in MQTT explorer, but the two switches I have online so far don’t respond to it.

If I go to the console of one of the switches and manually run:

cmnd/sonoffs/backlog power1 ;power2 ;power3 ;power4 ;power5; dimmer; state; power

it works fine, the switches respond and update home assistant. Any ideas? Very new to MQTT and Tasmota so shooting in the dark a little here.

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Disregard, I’m dumb.

The default group topic for the Tasmota devices is NOT “sonoffs” it’s “tasmotas”. Changing the automation to this fixed the issues:

### HA Start
- alias: Home Assistant Startup Automation
  trigger:
  - platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
  # Get Tasmota States
  - service: mqtt.publish
    data:
      topic: "cmnd/tasmotas/backlog"
      payload: "power1 ;power2 ;power3 ;power4 ;power5; dimmer; state; power "
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