if using discovery everything appears in entities.
thanks. I checked once more, but I dont see any Frient entity, even having clicked the ‘change homeassistant friendly_name’ checkbox.
not a single sensor or switch from the Z2M server is created, only mqtt topics? maybe I need an extra setting somewhere?
Set homeassistant: true and restart zigbee2mqtt
yes, thats what I have done… few times, and still no entities in sight.
Did manage to set the discovery topic though:
advanced:
homeassistant_discovery_topic: zigbee2mqtt
nicely adds all under the 1 key in mqtt explorer:
and the user: and password: options allow to separate the logins on the broker easily, I feel that is a much underestimated option.
for now I remain in quest for the entities… 
Does not change the fact that homeassistant itself still listens on homeassistant to discover devices.
Homeassistant configuration.yaml :
mqtt:
broker: x.x.x.x
port: 1883
discovery: true
discovery_prefix: homeassistant
yeah well, I dont use discovery , because way too many topics this simply cleans the mqtt explorer window for me.
which now makes it all clear: thats why there are no entities…? duh. 
indeed. Entities are created through mqtt auto-discovery.
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ok, this has been a while, please help me out… creating individual mqtt sensor on my HA instances, I test with:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/Frient test switch'
unique_id: frient_test_switch
name: Frient test switch
which subscribes to
and {{states('sensor.frient_test_switch')}} nicely returns:
{
"current": 0.04,
"energy": 0,
"linkquality": 135,
"power": 6,
"state": "ON",
"voltage": 222.59
}
now how do I add the template to get to the individual attributes there:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: 'zigbee2mqtt/Frient test switch'
unique_id: frient_switch_power
name: Frient switch power
value_template: >
{{value.power|float}}
<<: *power
must be easy but my head is spinning right now… hope you can have a look thanks!
EDIT:
nevermind, it was easy
- platform: mqtt
state_topic : 'zigbee2mqtt/Frient test switch'
name: Frient switch power
unique_id: 0x0015bc002f00e485_power_zigbee2mqtt
value_template: >
{{ value_json.power|float }} # <-- needed to add _jason
sorry for bothering and the (though related) off topic.
tip: the ‘config’ topics which Zigbee2mqtt creates for all entities hold all necessary info (and more) ready to use, so we don’t even have to find out ourselves. really very cool.
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Thank you too - I thought it had to go into configuration.yaml of HA - mine is now working after hours of frustration
@ francispFrancis
Dear francisp,
thank you for your hint with the adapter. Now it works for me.
Best regards
Peer
Thank you so much. Just like the others I thought it is the configuration.yaml of HomeAssistant. Thanks to you it is working now! Cheers!
This comment was clutch. I have been looking for solutions for a week and I simply had to turn off the ConBee II Zigbee integration I was using before Zigbee2mqtt.
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