12-26-2022, 01:17 PM
Hi
I have a situation when Home Assistant starts all my entities from 2 COLB modules have 'unknown' values. That's because the COLB modules are note sending periodic state messages ore they have no availability topic. They are sending data only on state changes. That's could be critical in some situations like climate control.
Example:
Turning on or off the heating in some rooms based on windows states. If a window in a room is closed then turn on the heating in that specific room. Now When HA starts the state of the window will be unknown so the heating won't start. That's only a banal example but in some critical scenes this could be an issue.
Proposed solution:
Make COLB to periodically (ex: every second) send stats data or when HA starts make some request to COLB topic to provide current sensor states.
This could massive improve the device reliability. Is it possible? Thank you.
I have a situation when Home Assistant starts all my entities from 2 COLB modules have 'unknown' values. That's because the COLB modules are note sending periodic state messages ore they have no availability topic. They are sending data only on state changes. That's could be critical in some situations like climate control.
Example:
Turning on or off the heating in some rooms based on windows states. If a window in a room is closed then turn on the heating in that specific room. Now When HA starts the state of the window will be unknown so the heating won't start. That's only a banal example but in some critical scenes this could be an issue.
Proposed solution:
Make COLB to periodically (ex: every second) send stats data or when HA starts make some request to COLB topic to provide current sensor states.
This could massive improve the device reliability. Is it possible? Thank you.