Battery, Light, not being pushed into MQTT

[stratus-ss]

I have been using this project for several months now and I really appreciate the work. Recently the ESP32 has stopped pushing data into the MQTT server.

If I connect to the topic like so:

mosquitto_sub -h 192.168.9.160 -v -t projector_blind/# -u 'user -P 'password'
projector_blind/LWT Online
projector_blind/enabled ON
projector_blind/<mac add>/available online

However, I never see the battery or light being published. I also have to do this:

projector_blind/all/set -m OPEN

In order to interact with the blinds (as oppposed to using the mac address). Here is my config

// Your Wifi SSID.
#define WIFI_SSID "WifeyWifi"

// Wifi password.
#define WIFI_PASSWORD "happyhappy"

// MQTT server details.
#define MQTT_ADDRESS "192.168.9.160"
#define MQTT_USERNAME "user"
#define MQTT_PASSWORD "password"

// WDT Timeout (in seconds) - comment out if not required
#define WDT_TIMEOUT 6

#define AM43_USE_NAME_FOR_TOPIC

#define MQTT_TOPIC_PREFIX "projector_blinds"

#define AM43_ENABLE_MQTT_DISCOVERY

#define AM43_MQTT_DEVICE_CLASS "shade"

#define AM43_PIN 8888

#define SHADE_1 "02:A1:BD:A2:CD:80"

#define DEVICE_ALLOWLIST ""

#define ENABLE_ARDUINO_OTA

// LEAVE BELOW UNTOUCHED
#ifdef AM43_ENABLE_MQTT_DISCOVERY
#undef AM43_USE_NAME_FOR_TOPIC
#endif

#define BLE_MAX_CONN 3

As an interesting datapoint, when i connect to the serial monitor, I can see these stats being received by the ESP, so the break down seems to be in the publishing to MQTT

any pointers would be helpful

[DaveTiff]

What version of Mosquitto broker are you running?

[stratus-ss]

Mosquitto broker
Current version: 6.0.1

[DaveTiff]

Has this stopped working since the update, I am having issue not sure what the problem is, I have gone back to 5.1.1.

Just a thought!

[stratus-ss]

I'll try rolling back and see what happens

[stratus-ss]

So rolling back the broker indeed fixed the problem. I have disabled the auto-update. I wonder what changed in the broker that prevents this from functioning as expected

[frizbeano]

I would like to add that I also have the issue

[balbulator]

how to rollback the broker version?

[stratus-ss]

I have snapshots going back a few months. I rolled back to one mid-april which had the previous version of the broker

[DaveTiff]

Hi, I did the same, used a Snapshot and just checked MQTT

[balbulator]

MQTT settings haven't changed?

[CaptInsano]

Also happening here. HomeAssistant 2021.5.5 Mosquitto: 6.0.1

All other MQTT devices (mainly Tasmota) all still working perfectly

[MrBigleg]

+1 I have gone back to 5.1.1. All good again