SOLVED: Reading failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11 after ESPhome 2023.3.0 upgrade

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I have upgraded the ESPhome add-on earlier this week to version 2023.3.0 .
Since that moment one of my ESP8266’s, configured as a DSMR interface is generating the following error:

[20:11:08][W][api.connection:085]: 192.168.178.68: Reading failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11
[20:11:20][D][api:102]: Accepted 192.168.178.68
[20:11:20][W][api.connection:085]: 192.168.178.68: Reading failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11
[20:11:38][D][DmsrCustom:179]: request new message from P1 port
[20:11:38][D][DmsrCustom:084]: Header found
[20:11:38][D][DmsrCustom:092]: Footer found
[20:11:38][D][DmsrCustom:099]: Trying to parse
[20:12:08][D][api:102]: Accepted 192.168.178.68
[20:12:08][W][api.connection:085]: 192.168.178.68: Reading failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11

And, more important, all device entities are unavailable

What can be the case here?
Thank you for your help, Yann

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Somebody suggested to look for the access parameters of the native API .
I followed the following procedure:

  • Sidepanel → Setting → Integrations → ESPhome > My device → 3 dots → Delete
  • Sidepanel → ESPhome → My device → edit
  • Edited myDevice.yaml file and made sure it contained
 # Enable Home Assistant API
api:
  encryption:
    key: !secret esphome_encryption_key
  • Compiled and uploaded code
  • Sidepanel → Setting → Devices → + Add Device → My device → the ESPhome encryption key that is in my secrets file

Done

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Oh my goodness!! You just saved my life! You don’t even know.

Thank you so much!

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I’m not sure if I get it; you’ve removed your device from the HA integration, then did something to the encryption key and then added the device again?

A lot of my sonoff devices fell out of the HA configuration and require re-integration with an encryption key, which I don’t have. All my yaml configuration files have kindly disappeared so I decided to start again. The sonoff controls a radiator valve and I added a AM2302 climate sensor to the unit, so it works as a stand alone temperature controller.

So after reprogramming a sonoff basic, and adding it to ESPHome page in my HA, I get the same error message.

[17:25:39][D][dht:048]: Got Temperature=22.7°C Humidity=38.5%
[17:25:39][D][sensor:093]: 'Music Room Temperature': Sending state 22.70000 °C with 1 decimals of accuracy
[17:25:39][D][sensor:093]: 'Music Room Humidity': Sending state 38.50000 % with 0 decimals of accuracy
[17:25:53][D][api:102]: Accepted 192.168.0.103
[17:25:53][W][api.connection:091]: : Socket operation failed: BAD_INDICATOR errno=11
[17:26:39][D][dht:048]: Got Temperature=22.8°C Humidity=38.6%

The log file shows the sensor is read. I don’t understand the error, nor do I understand the consequences.

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Consequences I think are less security if you dont have an encryption key setup. They added this in 2023.12.2 I believe, and heres more info on how to update older devices that helped me out some

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I got that same BAD_INDICATOR errno=11 today for the first time after a minor, unrelated change (which worked on all my other devices, btw.)

Deleting and re-adding the offending device in HA did the trick, thanks!!!

For the record, I do use the encryption key, and I didn’t have to recompile or upload again. Just the delete and re-add did the trick. No clue why.

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