Sonoff Tasmota Binary Sensor unavailable after reboot

[123 (Taras)]

@dhaker

my Sonoff binary sensors flashed to Tasmota go unavailable after reboot

If the payload is published as a retained message then the state will be known when Home Assistant restarts (and wouldn’t require an automation to set states on startup).

You may wish to consider implementing one of the two strategies presented here:

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…

Both re-publish payloads received from the RF Bridge as retained messages, thereby preventing associated binary_sensors from being reported as unavailable on startup.