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OpenZWave / Zwave2Mqtt

Fully configurable Zwave to MQTT gateway and Control Panel using NodeJS and Vue
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[question] Availability state not set in HA #894

Closed william57m closed 3 years ago

william57m commented 3 years ago

Hi,

I have a question about the availability in HA. When zwave2mqtt is down, my devices still appears as "available" in HA, they are not greyed out, is there an option to support that?

I know that in zigbee2mqtt, the payload of the devices contains the availability_topic which is checking zigbee2mqtt/bridge/state.

I tried to do the same in zwave2mqtt by setting the availability_topic of my component in "Hass Device Json" but I'm not able to do it properly because the message of zwave2mqtt/_CLIENTS/ZWAVE_GATEWAY-Mosquitto/status contains a timestamp, and I'm not able to map the correct value to check if it's true or false. Is there another way to do that?

Would it be possible to embed the availability_topic by default in the components?

Thanks

robertsLando commented 3 years ago

Switch to: https://github.com/zwave-js/zwavejs2mqtt

Oopen a feature request there if it's not implemented. Also if used with hass I suggest ot give a try also top the integrated zwavejs server with the new hass zwavejs addon

william57m commented 3 years ago

Can you tell me what's the difference? Is this version deprecated? (or just for openzwave). Why should I use zwavejs instead? Just trying to understand the benefit.

robertsLando commented 3 years ago

https://zwave-js.github.io/zwavejs2mqtt/#/getting-started/why