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Comfort2MQTT with Home Assistant Part 2C - refresh Comfort2MQTT - slychiu - 01-25-2025
When Home Assistant Restarts (Not Reload), it only restarts Home Assistant itself, all Add-ons remain running which could lead to some entities displaying an Unknown status. This status will update on the next change but for Alarm sensors that is not acceptable. A workaround to the problem is to Restart, or better yet, Refresh the Comfort to MQTT Add-on when Home Assistant restarts or when the configuration.yaml file is reloaded.
Go to Settings > Devices and Services > Integrations. Look for Home Assistant Supervisor
In the HA supervisor page look for Services and click on it. Select ComfortMQTT.
Select Sensors
Under Sensors you will see Running. Click on that it will show Disabled. 
Click on the gear icon. at the bottom there is a button to Enable it. Do that and UPDATE it. message says the entities will be added to Home assistant in 30 seconds.
Make an automation \"When Home Assistant MQTT Configuration changes then refresh Comfort\"
Go to File Editor, look for automations.yaml and add the text- id: 0987654321
alias: Refresh Comfort to MQTT Add-on
description: \'When Home Assistant MQTT Configuration changes then refresh Comfort
to MQTT entities.\'
triggers:
- event_type: call_service
event_data:
domain: mqtt
service: reload
trigger: event
conditions:
- condition: state
entity_id: binary_sensor.comfort_to_mqtt_running
state: \'on\'
actions:
- alias: Request a Refresh of all MQTT entities without a full Add-on reload
data:
topic: comfort2mqtt/alarm/refresh
payload: 0
qos: \'2\'
action: mqtt.publish
mode: single
Now if you restart Home assistant or make a change to configuration.yaml the states of the Binary sensors ie doors, windows and other sensors will show the state and not Unknown
For part 3 go to http://www.comfortforums.com/forum143/5576.html