Option for setting mqtt not to retain state...

[mattlward]

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I would like to use your card in a conditional card, some of my pi's are not on all the time and I would like to be able to hide them from the dashboard when they are not up. I have set the conditional to be the following...

condition: state entity: sensor.rpi_ts_pi_home_rpi_monitor_ts_pi state_not: unavailable

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But it never becomes unavailable as the data is retained from the last operational state.
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I would like to see the above sensor become unavailable after the duration of the polling interval is exceeded.

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I could maybe set up a ping sensor to decide when the unit is down.

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[bsimmo]

Ideally you would use LWT, there is also something in the mqtt ha/entity spec that I half remember reading about to do this.

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[ironsheep]

@bsimmo is correct. The daemon publishes .../status endpoints that contain the live up/down state [online|offline]. You should be able to condition your cards to hide if the status is not online.

The two endpoints look like this:
{base_topic}/sensor/{sensor_name}/status
{base_topic}/command/{sensor_name}/status