Problem with device_tracker and binary_sensor HA convention MQTT discovery for local Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad discovery

[Hans_Lree (DigiH)]

Thanks for the feedback, I will give 4.3 a test run sometime soon and will let you know of my findings.

It would be great if Bluetooth and RTL_433 OpenMQTTGateway could finally be easily and nicely discoverable and not just usable for the manually tech savvy users.

I’m just a bit worried now about the mention of values intermittently going to null, as mentioned in this other thread but will see it all for myself in a 4.3 test run.

ESP32 based BLE, 433mhz & IR gateway bidirectional with MQTT --> OpenMQTTGateway

Actually I just noticed that from time to time all the item states are set to null instead of actual values. After a couple of minutes everything goes back to normal/actual values. I added the thermostat with the homeassistant discovery (OH autodiscovery is set to ON). For all the other thermostats I own I’ve always set up the things as generic mqtt things. I noticed that sometimes the messages received from the thermostats come in empty (no measurements) so I added a second transform step to…