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[srooks]

using comfort2mqtt there is an alarm refresh (comfort2mqtt/alarm/refresh) .. which is useful when HA reloads the configuration.  

Is there a way to get the zones / counters / flags refreshed too .. other than restarting the comfort mqtt add-on ?

I guess another way is to default sensors (smoke, fire) to off state .. mine are appearing 'unknown' .. need to research how to do this !

[Ingo]

No. Refresh is the only reliable way I could find. It issues all the initial commands to sync Comfort to HA. This includes all the counters, sensors and flags.

I've seen rarely the Comfort UCM locks up and the refresh will not work but this has only happened to me in a LAB environment where I do put it through it's paces. The only way then is to restart the Addon which then does a Logout|Login.

[srooks]

No. Refresh is the only reliable way I could find. It issues all the initial commands to sync Comfort to HA. This includes all the counters, sensors and flags.

I've seen rarely the Comfort UCM locks up and the refresh will not work but this has only happened to me in a LAB environment where I do put it through it's paces. The only way then is to restart the Addon which then does a Logout|Login.

ok, so I discovered that the availability_topic: is used to set the initial state of a binary_sensor.
If I send mqtt comfort2mqtt/alarm/refresh with refresh code , this initialises the sensors - which is good.

Now worked out how to enable the refresh on mqtt config change (it's all about the filter setting!) 

Making progress :-)