MQTT Binary Sensor Unavailable

The problem

I have a MQTT Binary Sensor setup with Home Assistant along with the Mosquitto broker add on.

However, it seems to be stuck at Unavailable, even after sending a bunch of messages that should trigger the state.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.2.9

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

MQTT Binary Sensor

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/binary_sensor.mqtt/

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

binary_sensor:
  - platform: mqtt
    name: "Laundry Room Power"
    state_topic: "home-assistant/laundryroom/power/state"
    payload_on: "on" # Power
    payload_off: "off" # No Power
    availability:
      - topic: "home-assistant/laundryroom/power/availability"
        payload_available: "online"
        payload_not_available: "offline"
    qos: 1
    device_class: power
    value_template: "{{ value_json.state }}"
    expire_after: 120
    off_delay: 300

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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Additional information

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[Mastiffen]

@Lavaerius I just managed to fix it myself! Weird thing, I had to add qos : 0 to get it working. Or maybe the stars just aligned after 20-30 restarts and attempts… 🤣

[mkornmue]

@dro159 I did find a fix for that. THe main issue was that this configuration is not working when you put it into sub configs. e.g. sensors/mqttsensors.yaml

It is only working in the main configuration file.

mqtt: sensor: - name: “mqttespheatwatertempin” state_topic: “espheat/water/temperature/in” unique_id: “mqttespheatwatertempin” unit_of_measurement: “°C” force_update: true qos: 0 - name: “mqttespheatwatertempoven” state_topic: “espheat/water/temperature/oven” unique_id: “mqttespheatwatertempoven” unit_of_measurement: “°C” force_update: true qos: 0