RF devices with Sonoff RF Bridge on Tasmota Firmware: get sensor state on startup

[AussieByrd (Ben)]

Here…

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: sensor_name
    state_topic: "tele/sonoff/RESULT"
    value_template: '{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}'
    payload_on: E8AC99 

It’s looks like you might have an “open” sensing only sensor, so you might want to consider a timer (automation) to reset it to closed (or it gets a bit pointless).

[mclaudiopt]

thanks a lot @AussieByrd i will test it tonight
what kind of automation can i have ?
currently i have this:

  - platform: mqtt
    name: Correio
    state_topic: "tele/sonoff/RESULT"
    value_template: '{{value_json.RfReceived.Data}}'
    payload_on: E8AC99 

eventually, but i dont know how to do it, i could have an automation that everyday cleans this notifications. in alternative, and this would be the best for me, having instead of the notifications somethink like:

Card:

YOU GOT MAIL – YES
then a button that reset the value and give
“MAIL CHECKED” DURING THE REST OF THE DAY
THEN AT MIDNIGHT IT RESET’S AND SAYS “YOU DONT HAVE MAIL”

Asking to much right?

[AussieByrd (Ben)]

I haven’t played with these too much, but you might want to take a look at Alerts. And acknowledging alerts.

[SteveDinn]

Check out the attribute off_delay in the mqtt binary sensor documentation. This seems like exactly what you might want.

[SteveDinn]

You probably already have an answer, but another solution is to listen for the RF bridge’s native MQTT messages and create automations (or even a single templated automation) in Home Assistant which publish retained messages for individual sensors. I’ve moved to this method because it’s easier to maintain them in a centralized place than to have separate rules contained in various tasmota devices.

[tichao (Ondrej Ticha)]

Hi, and could you please publish some example of automation’s base on native MQTT messages from RF bridge?
thanks

[SteveDinn]

Check out this thread:

Sonoff RF Bridge. Strategies for receiving data

Here are two strategies for receiving payloads published by a Sonoff RF Bridge (flashed with Tasmota firmware). Strategy 1: value_template In this strategy, all sensors are subscribed to the same topic published by the RF Bridge. The topic's structure depends on how you defined it when you configured *your* RF Bridge. This example will use `tele/RF_Bridge/RESULT`. Change that to whatever you have set for your Bridge. Because all sensors are subscribed to the same topic, a sensor will receive pa…

[PickOne]

There is any way to make tasmota identify the RF devices like the zibgee does? I want to have individual topic for every device, but not with rules because this means that I already know the codes, and I don’t. I have all sensors setup in positions, working, I know the open/close codes, but I don’t know the Low Battery codes, and with a setting which forces tasmota to send diferent topics for every device, I can know when a device will tell me a different code from what I know already…

There is something like this in tasmota RF Bridge?