Shelly Flood Gen4 in zigbee mode unavalible

Configuration Zigbee
1

I’ve searched, I see other people with similar thing but no great fix.
My Shelly Flood Gen 4’s show unavailable. They are doing what they are supposed to do in zigbee mode. Is a battery saving thing when they go to sleep. They come on and report for a few then back to sleep, wake up immediately when moisture is detected etc. when they sleep I get “unavailable” for both the battery, and wet/dry state.

Is there a fix to show what the last state was instead? I was thinking about using a helper or something to save and view the last known state instead of the current state. Cant seem to find anything in helpers though.

shelly flood gen4
shelly flood gen41568×871 67.1 KB

Am using the Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2. I could change them to matter over wifi, or wifi direct with them but I think Zigbee is the best option for battery reservation.

2

I found a HACS fix.
“Previous State Tracker”
I wont describe a how to here because I’m still figuring it out myself but I have a constant entity in my dashboard now that doesn’t show “unavailable”.

3

The "previous state Tracker" didn't work out in the long term. I never quite figured it out. it sometimes worked, sometimes didn't had to restart etc. Maybe was my ignorance or a translation issue (I think the developer is Russian so the instructions are difficult for me).
Anyhoo...

I created an automation that sets a text helper, then I could create an entity card pointed to the helper.
That seems to work much better.
In the automation, you can set a value template to ignore unavailable and unknown.

so...
-create a "input text" helper for each entity.
-then create an automation to pull from the Shelly, Flood's entity, filter the unavailable or whatever with the "not in" command in the automation and sent to the helper.

  • point your deshboard entity card to the new helper.
4

Automation example:

alias: auto_Shelly_Flood_HotWater_sensor
description: Saves the current Shelly Flood state to an Input Text helper on state change
triggers:
  - entity_id: binary_sensor.shelly_flood_hotwater_sensor
    trigger: state
conditions:
  - condition: template
    value_template: >-
      {{ trigger.to_state.state | default('unknown') not in ['unavailable',
      'unknown', 'idle', 'standby'] }}
actions:
  - action: input_text.set_value
    target:
      entity_id: input_text.helper_shelly_hotwater_floodsensor
    data:
      value: >-
        {% set state = trigger.to_state.state | default('off') %} {{ 'Wet' if
        state == 'on' else 'Dry' }}
mode: single