qBittorrent Does Not Refresh After Connection Failure

The problem

if qBittorrent becomes unavailable, the system no longer tries to reach it and stays in a perpetual state of “unavailable” with no further status updates. The log reports “Connection lost” even though the server is back up again.

To reproduce: quit qBittorrent so that the sensor shows it as unavailable, then bring it back up again. In my case, I restarted qBittorrent at 9:43am and by 10:15am it is still unavailable and the sensor shows a last changed of 9:43am, with logs after that continuing to say it is unavailable.

The only way to get the sensor to connect again is to restart HA.

What is version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2021.3.4

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

qbittorrent

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/qbittorrent/

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

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2021-03-20 09:57:16 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.qbittorrent.sensor] Connection lost
2021-03-20 09:57:16 ERROR (SyncWorker_7) [homeassistant.components.qbittorrent.sensor] Connection lost
2021-03-20 09:57:16 ERROR (SyncWorker_6) [homeassistant.components.qbittorrent.sensor] Connection lost

[geoffreylagaisse]

I am still the maintainer, I will take a look at this later on after my holiday’s. I know the PR has been closed, but you must know I’ve maintained the PR for 2 years before a review came.

[geoffreylagaisse]

I’ll take a look at it! The heavy work has already been done I think (the configflow and making it async). I will probably have to fix a few deprecations, but nothing big. I will take a look at it first thing when I come back from holidays (beginning of September)