[DOC: PIR Motion Sensors] Fix MQTT topic to publish config for Home Assistant#1515
Merged
arendst merged 1 commit intotasmota:masterfrom Dec 31, 2025
Merged
Conversation
This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Sign up for free
to join this conversation on GitHub.
Already have an account?
Sign in to comment
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
I noticed that with the suggested topic in rule2, Home assistant doesn't detect the device/sensor.
After some digging with MQTT explorer I discovered that MQTT integration requires a particular structure of the topic tree under
/homeassistant. Sensors configuration should be nested under their type parent-topics, e.g./homeassistant/sensor/<Sensor ID>, or in that case/homeassistant/binary_sensor/<Sensor ID>.Also, not included in the PR is additional parameter for the device:
Without the name added to the device parameters, HA shows the sensor as

Connected via Unnamed device