Tasmota: Home Assistent displays devices after reboot as "off" when they are "on"

[TheZoker]

Describe the bug
When I start Home Assistant, the status of the sonoff devices get's not updated (not even after 5 minutes). I used this automation to trigger the update:

- alias: Tasmota - Powerstate
  trigger:
    platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: "cmnd/sonoffs/state"
        payload: "" 

• [x] _Searched the problem in issues and in the wiki_
• [x] _Hardware used_ : Sonoff S20
• [x] _Development/Compiler/Upload tools used_ : arduino
• [x] _If a pre-compiled release or development binary was used, which one?_ : sonoff.bin
• [x] _You have tried latest release or development binaries?_ : latest
• [x] _Provide the output of command_status 0 :

01:18:29 CMD: status 0
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS = {"Status":{"Module":8,"FriendlyName":["Ecklampe Sonoff"],"Topic":"ecklampe","ButtonTopic":"0","Power":1,"PowerOnState":3,"LedState":0,"SaveData":1,"SaveState":1,"SwitchTopic":"0","SwitchMode":[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],"ButtonRetain":0,"SwitchRetain":0,"SensorRetain":0,"PowerRetain":0}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS1 = {"StatusPRM":{"Baudrate":115200,"GroupTopic":"sonoffs","OtaUrl":"http://thehackbox.org/tasmota/release/sonoff.bin","RestartReason":"Software/System restart","Uptime":"2T22:52:02","StartupUTC":"2019-01-12T01:26:27","Sleep":50,"BootCount":30,"SaveCount":445,"SaveAddress":"F8000"}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS2 = {"StatusFWR":{"Version":"6.4.1(sonoff)","BuildDateTime":"2018-12-24T14:41:00","Boot":6,"Core":"2_4_2","SDK":"2.2.1(cfd48f3)"}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS3 = {"StatusLOG":{"SerialLog":2,"WebLog":2,"SysLog":0,"LogHost":"","LogPort":514,"SSId":["Sparta-IoT",""],"TelePeriod":300,"SetOption":["00008009","558180C0","00000000"]}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS4 = {"StatusMEM":{"ProgramSize":521,"Free":480,"Heap":17,"ProgramFlashSize":1024,"FlashSize":1024,"FlashChipId":"14405E","FlashMode":3,"Features":["00000809","0FDAE794","000383A0","23B617CE","00003BC0"]}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS5 = {"StatusNET":{"Hostname":"ecklampe-1399","IPAddress":"192.168.180.33","Gateway":"192.168.180.1","Subnetmask":"255.255.255.0","DNSServer":"192.168.180.1","Mac":"5C:CF:7F:79:A5:77","Webserver":2,"WifiConfig":5}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS6 = {"StatusMQT":{"MqttHost":"192.168.180.31","MqttPort":1883,"MqttClientMask":"DVES_%06X","MqttClient":"DVES_79A577","MqttUser":"florian","MqttType":1,"MAX_PACKET_SIZE":1000,"KEEPALIVE":15}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS7 = {"StatusTIM":{"UTC":"Tue Jan 15 00:18:29 2019","Local":"Tue Jan 15 01:18:29 2019","StartDST":"Sun Mar 31 02:00:00 2019","EndDST":"Sun Oct 27 03:00:00 2019","Timezone":"+01:00","Sunrise":"08:38","Sunset":"17:20"}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS10 = {"StatusSNS":{"Time":"2019-01-15T01:18:29"}}
01:18:29 MQT: stat/ecklampe/STATUS11 = {"StatusSTS":{"Time":"2019-01-15T01:18:29","Uptime":"2T22:52:02","Vcc":3.442,"SleepMode":"Dynamic","Sleep":50,"LoadAvg":19,"POWER":"ON","Wifi":{"AP":1,"SSId":"Flos-IoT","BSSId":"44:4E:6D:4C:70:CC","Channel":1,"RSSI":100}}}

To Reproduce

• Add tasmota device to HA via:

switch:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Ecklampe"
    state_topic: "stat/ecklampe/POWER"
    command_topic: "cmnd/ecklampe/POWER"
    availability_topic: "tele/ecklampe/LWT"
    state_value_template: "{{value_json.POWER}}"
    qos: 1
    payload_on: "ON"
    payload_off: "OFF"
    payload_available: "Online"
    payload_not_available: "Offline"
    retain: false

• Reboot HA
• Device is displayed as "off" even when it's "on"

Expected behavior
Display device as on if it's on

Screenshots
Device is on:

But displayed as off:

BTW: The commands are different here and here

topic: "cmnd/sonoffs/state" vs topic: "sonoffs/cmnd/state"

[ascillato]

You are right. You need that automation and that automation is explained in the wiki.

Also the difference you saw in the wiki is correct. The fulltopic is different if you config HA manually or by automatic discovery.

Sorry, there is no issue. In the wiki is explained all this.

[TheZoker]

@ascillato Thanks for the fast feedback. So I added my devices via the manual configuration and added the automation described above. Why does it not work then?

[ascillato2]

You can not use both, manual and automatic config. You need to choose one. The fulltopic is different. So, if you choose manual, check that your fulltopic is the same.

[ascillato2]

Closing this issue as it has been answered.

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[TheZoker]

I don't want to use both. I just want to use manual configuration. I just talked about the automatic config, because I thought the difference of the command would maybe be the issue for me. But since it's supposed that way, this is not the issue then. But what is the issue? Why does it not work?

[ascillato2]

Check that your fulltopic is the same in Tasmota and in your home assistant.

topic: "cmnd/sonoffs/state" vs topic: "sonoffs/cmnd/state"

[TheZoker]

Since I use the manual configuration, I need to use "cmnd/sonoffs/state" and that is exactly what I use in my automation:

This should be correct, right?

[TheZoker]

Currently it's %prefix%/%topic%/ (see screenshot above). Do I need to change that?

Sorry if these questions are obvious, but I'm completely new to tasmota and MQTT. Really appreciate the help!

[ascillato2]

Write the command grouptopic in the console to check that your grouptopic is sonoffs

[TheZoker]

Output:

02:21:55 CMD: grouptopic
02:21:55 MQT: stat/ecklampe/RESULT = {"GroupTopic":"sonoffs"}

[ascillato2]

Ah, ok. Your automation in home assistant is wrong for manual configuration. Let me rewrite it for you.

[ascillato2]

- alias: Tasmota - Powerstate
  trigger:
    platform: homeassistant
    event: start
  action:
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: "cmnd/sonoffs/state"
        payload: ""
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: cmnd/sonoffs/POWER
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: cmnd/sonoffs/POWER2
    - service: mqtt.publish
      data:
        topic: cmnd/sonoffs/POWER3  

[ascillato2]

You were right. We rearrange the wiki and that was taken out. Will correct the wiki. Thanks for reporting :+1:

[TheZoker]

Seems to work :) Thank you very much for the quick help!

[ascillato]

Great! Thanks for your testings and patience.

[ascillato2]

Wiki Updated for Manual Configuration. Thanks :+1: