@jamesderrick For one particular device I have 137 topics/messages to deal with... 🫣

I feel that Home Assistant's MQTT discovery, while useful, is at least to some extend just broken.

It only works somewhat reliably when discovery messages are being retained (so that's basically what everyone uses by default), but HA offers no way of deleting all retained messages for a device. You have to do that manually, and for complex devices it may require deleting perhaps dozens of retained messages from your broker, which makes removing an MQTT-discovered device a major PITA and susceptible to breakage if you accidentally remove the wrong messages

#homeassistant #mqtt