Setting MQTT Birth and Last will with the new MQTT Integration

Configuration
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I’ve been playing around and got the birth message working at least. Configuration:

  • Hassio on Ubuntu
  • Broker: Community Hass.io Add-on: MQTT Server & Web client
  • MQTT HA client configured initially through Integrations in the UI

I added the following to configuration.yaml after the initial configuration of MQTT:

mqtt:
  broker: 192.168.xxx.xxx:1883 # broker address a0d7b954-mqtt also works for the Hassio MQTT Server and Web client Add On
  username: !secret mqtt_username
  password: !secret mqtt_password
  birth_message:
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'online'
  will_message:
    topic: 'hass/status'
    payload: 'offline'

As mentioned above, the birth message gets sent. The last will message does not.

Can someone try this with a different broker type (not the Hassio add-on) to see if the last will message works with a different broker in order to narrow down the failure conditions? Thanks