I recently had a problem in which Z2M failed to start. While troubleshooting, I restarted HA, then rebooted HA. After I had found and corrected the issue that was preventing Z2M from starting I noticed that ALL of the Helpers that I had defined to change my Zigbee switches to Lights were missing. I restored a Z2M update-backup, but that didn’t help. I didn’t want to go back to a previous HA backup, so I manually recreated all the Helpers.
It would have been better if the Helpers were made Unavailable or some such thing rather than simply going missing, presumably deleted.
Afaik the helpers don’t disappear when unavailable, but they do when the entity is no longer there. I too find this ‘feature’ annoying when replacing one entity with another.
Don’t forget to vote yourself.
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