entities offline after the update of by-me integration

[felisida]

Hi Andy, this morning after doing the update from HACS of the By me integration, all entities are not available this is my installation running on proxmo x

[h4de5]

the latest update includes moving from the traditional configuration via config file, to the config flow using the integration page.

see if you can find it from there:

the config flow also asks you if you want to rename your entities - keep those checkboxes off to keep your exsiting naming.

[felisida]

hi, I followed your instructions, but the results is the same all entities ar off-line, tried too to activate ssl, because my istance of ha work with ssl

[melaqu]

Same issue. I have a question: do I have to delete Vimar info in configuration.yaml?

[felisida]

I tried to delete info from configuration.yaml, but without success

[davideciarmiello]

Hi. @felisida can you check if you have a logs with errors? The config flow, completed with success? in page of integrations, on Vimar integration, are listed a devices?

[h4de5]

it should not be necessary to remove the vimar entry from configuration.yaml - on the other hand it should be necessary to have it in the future.

some tests showed, that ab existing vimar connection was not reused - but instead a new one was created. This resulted in duplicated entities - you would see something like light.first_floor_bath_1 and light.first_floor_bath_1_2, one offline and one connected but not used in any dashboard.

to get around this, here is what I did:

• i did a backup of the whole HA installation (specially the database and the device entries) !
• remove the "vimar:" config entry from configuration.yaml, and if already present, remove the vimar config flow entry as well.
• restart HA
• go to entites search for all "vimar" and remove them all (make sure to only check those which are coming from "VIMAR by-me Hub" integration)
• maybe restart HA again to make sure that there is nothing left
• then go to integrations, search for Vimar and add the integration again from scratch - see pictures above

i tried this a couple of times to make sure, that the entity_ids stays the same as they where before the upgrade to config flow. so any automations that are build based on those ids still work. But: If you follow this way, the entity name (friendly name) and manually selected icons will be reset to what Vimar returns.

[felisida]

Perfect now all is ok. thanks a lot