ESPHome binding for the Native API [4.0.0.0;6.0.0.0)

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Hi Jeff,

please state the version of the binding you are using and send DEBUG level logs via PM.

BRG

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Hi Arne -

Iā€™m using version 4.1.0.202503070857.

The log for the first issue is attached. To create this log:

  • I restarted my esphome device

  • Turned the Pool_Zero_Flow_Sensor switch a few times and the esphome never saw this action. I never saw the ā€œSending message type HomeAssistantStateResponseā€ in the log.

  • I then disabled and re-enabled the openhab thing

  • Turned the Pool_Zero_Flow_Sensor switch and now the esphome device saw this action. In the log this was:
    Sending message type HomeAssistantStateResponse with content 'entity_id: "itemstatechangedevent.pool_zero_flow_sensor"

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Well, after quite a while of testing, some progress here and there, I have to remove the esphome binding from OpenHAB because I cannot make it work stable.

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I spent the last couple of months without major issues (just the one random device going offline but returned by itself ) but this last week all of my esphome devices go offline routinely and stay offline or ā€œyellowā€. Every day I have to go into the karaf console to restart the binding.
Iā€™ve been using mqtt and while auto discovery has some problems, it may be a worth it alternative and Iā€™ll be exploring that.

I can only assume that the problem lies in my setup, maybe docker, but unfortunately I donā€™t have enough knowledge to troubleshoot the issue.

Iā€™m sad today :frowning:
Just wanted to share that if anyone is seeing this behavior, then youā€™re not alone.

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Still very happy with it since june 2024. I donā€™t use docker. It is very stable but at every OH update I have to reinstall it. This has been discussed earlier I think.

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Not the same issue. Seine was always very kind to me and assisted, but the problem never truly went away unfortunately.

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I am still getting the following error message:

[REMOVEMEWHENADDINGirrf] Ping responses lacking. Waited 6 times 30s, total of 180s. Last pong received at 2025-05-11T10:30:55.137826937Z. Assuming connection lost and disconnecting

How can I fix this?

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Running the latest version?

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running 4.3.5 of OH and ESPhome add-on Updated At 12. march 2025 09:36

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This one is really hard to debug because I donā€™t see this myself at all (other connection issues related to a crowded radio environment however - but always the same 3 devices that are acting up).

There are a few things you can try; see first and third FAQ entry: GitHub - seime/openhab-esphome: ESPHome native API implementation for openHAB binding

Iā€™m also sending you a new version in a PM where Iā€™ve rewritten the thread handling just to see whether it helps or not. One caveat is that Iā€™ve removed support for plaintext password which has been deprecated for a year or so. Hopefully no-one is using it anyways. But Iā€™m not ready to publish yet.

Please enable DEBUG logs and send to me when you see the problem. If I have nothing to investigate it is really hard to figure out the culprit.

BRG

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Iā€™ve got two of time lying around for a few months now, and itā€™s about time I configured them, and put them to work :wink:

But I canā€™t figure out from the link how to install the necessary software on itā€¦ Whereā€™s the yaml code?

Thanks for your assistance!

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Updated version out, see initial thread post for details.

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Is it possible to install an older version of this binding? It was working for me before the latest OpenHAB update.

I have 4x Konnected Panel Pros (https://konnected.io/), which connect using the ESPHome API without an API key.
There is a way to add them to ESPHome, but itā€™s not working for me and adds a layer of unnecessary complexity even if I can get it working.
Why is the API encryption key required? Why canā€™t it be like it was before?

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If I downgrade openHAB, will this binding downgrade too and go back to the way it was until I can get my device sorted?
Or is there a jar file of an older version of this binding that will work in the latest OH?

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Can you update them wirelessly?

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Itā€™s complicated. Itā€™s a standalone product that happens to use ESPHome firmware and api. It works standalone with itā€™s app for changing settings and setup, this is why it has worked for me until now, but the app has no api settings. There is a way to adopt them into ESPHome and customise the firmware, but for some reason they arenā€™t being discovered by ESPHome, so I need to trouble shoot all of that first.
I didnā€™t see this as a breaking change in the OH release notes, only in this thread. Either I missed it or it wasnā€™t there.

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Nah we had ample warning. The problem I would say is that your setup is non standard. And as we frequently discover, non standard setups eventually become headaches

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There was only warning if you were following this thread. I had no reason to need this thread until now.

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I may not be explaining myself properly. Let me try again.
This binding connects to devices that use a firmware called esphome.
Esphome is part of nabu casa / home assistant.
The ā€œownersā€ informed the community here:

About this coming change in 2023. Changes to esphome also affect bindings because if they remove features we also lose them.

Soā€¦ if youā€™re not following esphome news, you get surprises like this :slight_smile:

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ok, well weā€™re here now, whether itā€™s my fault or not.
I tried downgrading OH as far as I could without breaking even more stuff, but it is still using the newest ESPHome binding. Is there a jar of the last version of the ESPHome binding?