Home Assistant Sensors for Inverter and Strings hold latest state (MQTT)

[s-allius]

Discussed in #233

^{Originally posted by mime24 December 7, 2024}
If my inverter is off at nights the Home Assistant Sensors hold their latest status.
I would prefer the sensors become ‘unavailable’ if the connection is dead.

Any thought on this?

[danez]

I agree, I noticed this today myself.

The zendure integration has an automation, which resets values to 0 if no data was received for a certain amount of minutes. This could work here too for values like power, but for others like temperature, that would not work. So unavailable seems fine.