Luligu
commented
5 months ago Hi, we have two problem. First problem: the debug flag should not have any effect with finding or not devices... unless this is a timing issue. We need to understand what happens in your setup when the flag is not checked. But I need a full log to understand. In the issue #30 the problem disappeared so it was not possible to understand the problem.
The second problem: "there is a way to remove/delete devices only if they are really deleted/removed from zigbee2mqtt. For example, a fail to connect to the MQTT server should not remove all the devices?" The devices are not removed, it is that when the matter aggregator starts with 0 devices loaded, Google (also Apple Home does the same) interprets this like they have been removed from the bridge so it removes the devices from the home too... There are 3 possible solutions to this in my opinion: 1) add an option to the start that prevents the matter server to start if it finds 0 devices. This is easy to do and test but doesn't solve the issue if you have more then 1 plugin and only one has an issue. 2) continue to develop the serialized and saved devices as part of matterbridge start that I was coding months ago: basically when matterbridge shut down (you see it in the log) it does 'Saving registered devices...', then the idea was to load the serialized devices in the aggregator if they are not reloaded by the plugin to avoid them to disappear from the homes. 3) use a backup/restore application like Controller (I use it in my production setup) to restore rooms and automations when some issues removed the devices. I don't know if Goggle home has any of this.
PascalHaury
copystring
Hi,
I tried out the latest release 2.1.2 to see if issue https://github.com/Luligu/matterbridge-zigbee2mqtt/issues/30 was fixed. So I unchecked the debug box in the settings of matterbridge-zigbee2mqtt and the plugin did not work correctly. It found no devices. The device count was 0. This caused all devices to be removed in google home. After making debug true for the plugin, all devices were added back again, but obviously lost all their rooms. So I had to move and rename 102(!) devices to their rooms again. This is very demotivating to use matterbridge at all if things like this happen. Devices should never be removed from matterbridge, unless they are actually removed from zigbee2mqtt.
So do you think there is a way to remove/delete devices only if they are really delete/removed from zigbee2mqtt. For example, a fail to connect to the MQTT server should not remove all the devices.