[SOLVED] Issue switch status and automation

Configuration
1

I have added to switches to my configuration.yaml which when HA restart it tells me they are off, but they are not. If I turn them on -off -on. On automation any way to disable them from the home screen

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I also noticed

Log Details (WARNING)
Sun Jul 22 2018 18:37:44 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Setup of config is taking over 10 seconds.

add mqtt

mqtt:
broker: core-mosquitto

add mqtt switches

switch:

  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Turtle Tank Lights”
    command_topic: “cmnd/sonoff61/power”
    state_topic: “stat/sonoff61/POWER”
    qos: 1
    payload_on: “ON”
    payload_off: “OFF”
    retain: true

  • platform: mqtt
    name: “Turtle Tank Outlet”
    command_topic: “cmnd/sonoff52/power”
    state_topic: “stat/sonoff52/POWER”
    qos: 1
    payload_on: “ON”
    payload_off: “OFF”
    retain: true

automations.yaml

  • alias: “Turtle Tank Lights On”
    trigger:
    platform: time
    at: ‘07:15:00’
    action:

    • service: homeassistant.turn_on
      entity_id: switch.turtle_tank_lights

  • alias: “Turtle Tank Lights Off”
    trigger:
    platform: time
    at: ‘23:10:00’
    action:

    • service: homeassistant.turn_off
      entity_id: switch.turtle_tank_lights

thanks for any assistant

Yes I’m an old dog trying to learn new tricks, and face planting too many times today.

2

Are you only using the HA frontend to turn off and on the lights? Or is there a physical switch involved?

MQTT can be a bit quirky.

3

we are trying to get the turtle light on a schedule. the outlet we have been push the button but waiting the for momentary switch to come in so i could setup gpio14 on HA 0.74.0 and tasmota 6.1.1c

4

See if you can sub to the sonoff topics and see if it is publishing a message when you press the button. The real issue here is that when a physical switch is pressed it needs to tell the MQTT broker that the light has been turned on via MQTT with the ‘retain’ flag. I don’t particularly like Tasmota and only have it on 1 switch so I can’t remember if it publishes a retained message on physical switch.

5

temp fix on the connect to sonoff (or device which has been tasmotaized) go to console and in the command line type PowerRetain 1

I don’t know the effects but in the short term resolves the issue.

not to show automation on overview page:

add hide_entity: True

example

  • alias: “Lights On”
    hide_entity: True