MQTT discovery issue?

[btehan]

Select Add-On (place a lowercase x for the relevant add-on)

• Xiaomi Mi Scale

Describe the bug
I am running HAOS in a VM and have installed Xiaomi Mi Scale v0.3.3 as an add-on. Here's my config:

HCI_DEV: hci0
BLUEPY_PASSIVE_SCAN: false
MISCALE_MAC: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
MISCALE_VERSION: 1
MQTT_PREFIX: miscale
MQTT_HOST: 192.168.4.19
MQTT_USERNAME: username
MQTT_PASSWORD: password
MQTT_PORT: 1883
MQTT_RETAIN: true
MQTT_DISCOVERY: true
MQTT_DISCOVERY_PREFIX: homeassistant
MQTT_TLS_CACERTS: Path to CA Cert File
MQTT_TLS_INSECURE: true
TIME_INTERVAL: 30
USERS:

• NAME: Brian
  SEX: male
  GT: 160
  LT: 200
  HEIGHT: 180
  DOB: "year-month-day"

The add-on starts and the logs after I weigh myself look good:

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2022-10-04 14:54:31 - Starting Xiaomi mi Scale...
2022-10-04 14:54:31 - Loading Config From Add-On Options...
2022-10-04 14:54:31 - Config Loaded...

2022-10-04 14:54:31 - Initialization Completed, Waiting for Scale...
2022-10-04 14:54:39 - Publishing data to topic miscale/Brian/weight: {"weight":173.30,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":24.26,"basal_metabolism":1551.53,"visceral_fat":14.32,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:54:39+00:00"}
2022-10-04 14:54:39 - Data Published ...
2022-10-04 14:54:51 - Publishing data to topic miscale/Brian/weight: {"weight":168.50,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":23.59,"basal_metabolism":1519.01,"visceral_fat":13.24,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:54:51+00:00"}
2022-10-04 14:54:51 - Data Published ...
2022-10-04 14:55:01 - Publishing data to topic miscale/Brian/weight: {"weight":173.00,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":24.22,"basal_metabolism":1549.44,"visceral_fat":14.25,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:55:01+00:00"}
2022-10-04 14:55:01 - Data Published ...

I am able to see the data in my MQTT broker (EMQX) when I go to Configuration >> MQTT >> Retainer >> miscale/Brian/weight >> Show Payload:

{
"weight": 173,
"weight_unit": "lbs",
"bmi": 24.22,
"basal_metabolism": 1549.44,
"visceral_fat": 14.25,
"timestamp": "2022-10-04T14:55:01+00:00"
}

Using MQTT explorer connected to the broker, I am able to see the same three entries as the add-on logs:

{"weight":173.00,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":24.22,"basal_metabolism":1549.44,"visceral_fat":14.25,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:55:01+00:00"}
{"weight":168.50,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":23.59,"basal_metabolism":1519.01,"visceral_fat":13.24,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:54:51+00:00"}
{"weight":173.30,"weight_unit":"lbs","bmi":24.26,"basal_metabolism":1551.53,"visceral_fat":14.32,"timestamp":"2022-10-04T14:54:39+00:00"}

However, what I'm not seeing are weight sensors in HA via MQTT discovery. I always struggle with MQTT, so I feel that this is a config issue on my end, but I could use a hand in figuring this out, please.

To Reproduce
Install the add-on, point it at MQTT broker, weigh yourself.

Expected behaviour
From the docs, I had expected an entity in HAOS for my weight. I'm not seeing any when I go to HAOS >> Developer Tools >> States and look for any of the above info.

Scale (please complete the following information):

• xiaomi
• 1st gen

Device running Home Assistant (please complete the following information):

• HAOS VM on proxmox 7.2
• USB Dongle

[radek-kafka]

I can see the same.. the function for MQTT_Discovery is not called so new sensors after adding/changing of new user is not called.. I do not see any messages adding of sensor to be published in mqtt ..

[lolouk44]

Thanks for bringing this up. Fixed in 0.3.4 which should be built in 10-15 min

[twangraus]

@lolouk44 is the BLUEPY_PASSIVE_SCAN option still relevant, as the bluepy is no longer supported?

[lolouk44]

@twangraus no, not at this stage. I'm still investigating if and how to bring this functionality, but it feels like it was a workaround to make bluepy work / to bypass some of bluepy flaws.
I've not had any reports of either add-on or standalone container failing while using bleak in active mode.

[lolouk44]

@btehan @radek-kafka can you confirm MQTT Discovery is working and close this issue if applicable?

[radek-kafka]

@btehan @radek-kafka can you confirm MQTT Discovery is working and close this issue if applicable?

I did re-install .. Readme is version 0.3.4 but the code is the old one 0.3.3 .. Also version shown is still 0.3.3.. Shall be patient and wait till image is ready .. :) Many thanks

[lolouk44]

Code in 0.3.4 is defo updated. You may need to reboot your HA instance to it can catch up with the update

[btehan]

0.3.4 fixed this. Thank you @lolouk44 :⁠-⁠)

[radek-kafka]

Shall be ok:) Thx ..
022-10-05 13:56:53 - Starting Xiaomi mi Scale...
2022-10-05 13:56:53 - Loading Config From Add-On Options...
2022-10-05 13:56:53 - Config Loaded...
2022-10-05 13:56:53 - MQTT Discovery Setup Completed...

2022-10-05 13:56:53 - Initialization Completed, Waiting for Scale...

[RestOp]

I have this problem till now, version 0.3.6
No sensors are created...