Unavailable in Home Assistant

[wardy277]

I am not sure if this is a home assistant or mqtt.org server update change. But the lamp, which has been working fine has suddenly become unavailable in home assistant

I can still see and interact with the lamp via the webui. I can see that the device is registered in MQTT. I have changed the settings with a new name, uploaded to the device and can see the new device appear in MQTT as well as home assistant, but with the same issue of being unavailable. I have even reflashed both firmware.bin and fs.bin with a latest build

Does the code need updating with patches to support a new version of home assistant/mqtt?

Settings:

{
  "activeEffect": 0,
  "logInterval": 0,
  "matrix": {
    "pin": 4,
    "width": 16,
    "height": 16,
    "segments": 1,
    "type": 15,
    "maxBrightness": 255,
    "currentLimit": 5000,
    "rotation": 3,
    "dither": true,
    "order": "grb"
  },
  "connection": {
    "mdns": "firelamp",
    "apName": "Fire Lamp",
    "apPassword": "****",
    "ntpServer": "uk.pool.ntp.org",
    "ntpOffset": 0,
    "hostname": "firelamp",
    "ssid": "****",
    "bssid": "",
    "password": "****",
    "login": ""
  },
  "mqtt": {
    "host": "****",
    "port": 1883,
    "username": "****",
    "password": "****",
    "uniqueId": "firelamp",
    "name": "firelamp",
    "model": "firelamp"
  },
  "button": {
    "pin": 255,
    "type": 1,
    "state": 0
  }
}

MQTT Diagnostics
mqtt-514072268cec2d4aa391b17e1c927ea4-firelamp-77831687de9b8825071da4cac8df4500.json.txt

[CODeRUS]

check serial messages on startup to see mqtt conenction logs

[wardy277]

Does anything in the serial log show any idea whats going on? The homeassistant/light/firelamp/state lines near the bottom is where i used the webui to turn the lamp on and off

Happy debugging!
Flash ide  size: 4194304 bytes
Flash ide speed: 40000000 Hz
Flash ide mode:  DIO
Flash real id:   001640D8
Flash real size: 4194304 bytes

Flash Chip configuration ok.
Sketch size: 639936
Sketch free: 2502656
1_FreeHeap: 39200
Initializing Settings
FLASHFS Settings file exists: true
FLASHFS Settings save file exists: true
FLASHFS Settings file size: 632
reading settings.json.save
{"activeEffect":45,"logInterval":0,"working":false,"matrix":{"pin":4,"width":16,"height":16,"segments":1,"type":15,"maxBrightness":255,"currentLimit":5000,"rotation":3,"dither":true,"order":"grb"},"connection":{"mdns":"firelamp","apName":"Fire Lamp","apPassword":"**REDACTED**","ntpServer":"uk.pool.ntp.org","ntpOffset":0,"hostname":"firelamp","ssid":"**REDACTED**","bssid":"","password":"**REDACTED**","login":""},"mqtt":{"host":"**REDACTED**","port":1883,"username":"**REDACTED**","password":"**REDACTED**","uniqueId":"firelamp","model":"firelamp","name":"firelamp"},"button":{"pin":255,"type":1,"state":0},"spectrometer":{"active":false}}
Copying file from /settings.json.save to /settings.json
Button pin: 255
Initializing EffectsManager
FLASHFS Effects file exists: true
FLASHFS Effects save file exists: true
FLASHFS Effects file size: 4237
reading effects.json
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Effects count: 57
Copying file from /effects.json.save to /effects.json
Initializing MyMatrix
Using led pin: 4
Set max brightness to: 255
Set current limit to: 5000
Set dither: 1
Set rotation to: 3
Framebuffer_GFX::begin Width: 16 Height: 16 Num Pixels: 256
Initializing web server at: 80
AutoConnect started

Disconnected from Wi-Fi.
Connecting to network: **REDACTED**
Finished connecting
Connected to Wi-Fi.
Connected to Wi-Fi.
AP ssid: **REDACTED**
AP bssid: **REDACTED**
STA IP address: **REDACTED**
scheduleScan
AutoConnect finished
Initializing LocalDNS
mDNS responder (firelamp) started!
Announcing http (tcp) service on port 80
Initializing TimeClient
Initializing GyverTimer: uk.pool.ntp.org, offset: 10800
Initializing MqttClient
Activating effect[45]: Waterfall Pallete
Connected to Wi-Fi.
Connecting to MQTT...
Connected to MQTT.
Session present: 0
Sending discovery
homeassistant/light/firelamp/config
{
  "~": "homeassistant/light/firelamp",
  "name": "firelamp",
  "uniq_id": "firelamp",
  "cmd_t": "~/set",
  "stat_t": "~/state",
  "avty_t": "~/available",
  "pl_avail": "true",
  "pl_not_avail": "false",
  "schema": "json",
  "brightness": true,
  "effect": true,
  "rgb": true,
  "json_attr_t": "~/state",
  "dev": {
    "mf": "coderus",
    "name": "firelamp",
    "mdl": "firelamp",
    "ids": [
      "firelamp"
    ]
  },
  "effect_list": [
    "Fire",
    "Sparkles",
    "Vertical rainbow",
    "Horizontal rainbow",
    "Color change",
    "Clouds 3D",
    "Lava 3D",
    "Plasma 3D",
    "Rainbow 3D",
    "Rainbow stripe 3D",
    "Zebra 3D",
    "Forest 3D",
    "Ocean 3D",
    "Single color",
    "Snow",
    "Matrix",
    "Lighters",
    "Clock vertical",
    "Clock horizontal colored",
    "Clock horizontal",
    "Clock horizontal single",
    "Starfall",
    "DiagonalRainbow",
    "Waterfall",
    "Twirl Rainbow",
    "Pulsing circles",
    "Aqarium",
    "Storm",
    "Matrix 2",
    "Tracking Lighters",
    "Light Balls",
    "Moving Cube",
    "White Color",
    "Pulsing Comet",
    "Double Comet",
    "Triple Comet",
    "Rainbow Comet",
    "Color Comet",
    "Moving Flame",
    "Fractorial Fire",
    "Rainbow Kite",
    "Bouncing Balls",
    "Spiral",
    "Meta Balls",
    "Sinusoid",
    "Waterfall Pallete",
    "Rain",
    "Prismata",
    "Flock",
    "Whirl",
    "Wave",
    "Fire12",
    "Fire18",
    "Rain Neo",
    "Twinkles",
    "e131 or art-net",
    "Scrolling Text"
  ]
}
Sending state
homeassistant/light/firelamp/state
{
  "state": "OFF",
  "brightness": 80,
  "speed": 100,
  "scale": 20,
  "effect": "Waterfall Pallete",
  "localIp": "**REDACTED**",
  "webui": "http://**REDACTED**",
  "device": "esp8266",
  "sparkling": 80
}
Sending availability
homeassistant/light/firelamp/available
Subscribing to topic: homeassistant/light/firelamp/set
Scan done
Found networks: 6
index: 0
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
index: 1
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
index: 2
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
index: 3
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
index: 4
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
index: 5
ssid: **REDACTED**
bssid: **REDACTED**
FrameBuffer::GFX 72fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps
ws[/ws][1] connect
Sending state to ws clients
{
  "activeEffect": 45,
  "working": false
}
ws[/ws][1] pong[0]: 
ws[/ws][1] text-message[120]: {"event":"EFFECTS_CHANGED","data":{"i":"WaterfallPalette","n":"Waterfall Pallete","s":100,"l":20,"b":80,"sparkling":80}}
<< {"event":"EFFECTS_CHANGED","data":{"i":"WaterfallPalette","n":"Waterfall Pallete","s":100,"l":20,"b":80,"sparkling":80}}
Sending state
homeassistant/light/firelamp/state
{
  "state": "OFF",
  "brightness": 80,
  "speed": 100,
  "scale": 20,
  "effect": "Waterfall Pallete",
  "localIp": "**REDACTED**",
  "webui": "http://**REDACTED**",
  "device": "esp8266",
  "sparkling": 80
}
ws[/ws][1] text-message[31]: {"event":"WORKING","data":true}
<< {"event":"WORKING","data":true}
working: true
Sending state
homeassistant/light/firelamp/state
{
  "state": "ON",
  "brightness": 80,
  "speed": 100,
  "scale": 20,
  "effect": "Waterfall Pallete",
  "localIp": "**REDACTED**",
  "webui": "http://**REDACTED**",
  "device": "esp8266",
  "sparkling": 80
}
Sending state to ws clients
{
  "activeEffect": 45,
  "working": true
}
ws[/ws][1] text-message[32]: {"event":"WORKING","data":false}
<< {"event":"WORKING","data":false}
working: false
Sending state
homeassistant/light/firelamp/state
{
  "state": "OFF",
  "brightness": 80,
  "speed": 100,
  "scale": 20,
  "effect": "Waterfall Pallete",
  "localIp": "**REDACTED**",
  "webui": "http://**REDACTED**",
  "device": "esp8266",
  "sparkling": 80
}
Sending state to ws clients
{
  "activeEffect": 45,
  "working": false
}
Saving settings... Done!
Saving effects... Done!
FrameBuffer::GFX 95fps
FrameBuffer::GFX 101fps

[CODeRUS]

okay, it says mqtt is connected. is lamp the only mqtt entity on your home assistant? can you check if you can receive any mqtt messages at all?

[wardy277]

Sorry, for the delay. I have been playing with settings and mqtt, and what i have found is odd.

I have found an mqtt explorer which allows me to see whats going on in the world of mqtt. I can see that the lamp has 3 nodes config, state and available. I noticed that available has a value of false. I simply published true to homeassistant/light/firelamp/available and yo and behold, the lamp was available in home assistant.

I also tested this by publishing the available=true from within home assistant. No idea where the issue lies, with mqtt, home assistant or the lamp itself