Losing the Control items when using ESPHome-1P-Sunsynk-Deye.yaml with an ESP32-DevKitC and a MAX485

[championc]

All the Sensors are loading fine, but if the ESP32 is rebooted, it takes absolutely ages for the Control Items to load up into Home Assistant.

My problem is that Automations adjust values, which have become unavailable, but suddenly appear maybe an hour or two later. I have seen the Control items when browsing to my ESP32.

Is there a way to force everything to update to Home Assistant ?

[championc]

What I noticed last night was that if I changed something in the ESPHOME Webview, then it appeared to update the controls into HA - which sounds nuts !!!

[slipx06]

Does not sound normal. Are you seeing any errors in your ESPHome logs? Is your network connection to the ESP32 stable?

[championc]

Further update

At around 19:00 I check and all Controls and Sensors were present. I have an automation to start discharging the battery which starts at 20:00. I checked my watch at 20:20 and the battery was not discharging because the Controls were gone again.

I just checked now, and the Controls are back again.

So I am at a total loss as to why they come and go. The Sensors are ALWAYS present

[championc]

I run ESPHome in a docker container. Clicking on the logs shows this

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I know I manually started discharging at 20:23, and so all of the controls returned some time between then and now

[slipx06]

Open the ESPHome Dashboard and check those logs

[championc]

Mine isn't online :(

I rechecked 10 mins ago, and in HA I can only see 30 Control items, and it EXCLUDES Work Mode

But when I browse to the ESP32, I can see my Deye Work Mode

So it is 100% a problem of the ESP32 sending the Control Items to HA

[concierge-at]

try to use other pins like this

`
uart:
id: mod_bus
#tx_pin: GPIO1 #avoid
#rx_pin: GPIO3 #avoid
tx_pin: GPIO17 # TX-Pin = Di
rx_pin: GPIO16 # RX-Pin = RO
#tx_pin: GPIO22
#rx_pin: GPIO21
baud_rate: 9600
stop_bits: 1

modbus:
id: inverter_modbus
#Flow Control
flow_control_pin: GPIO4
`

i use the code on esp32dev and nodemcu-32s

works fine only contact problems due to patch cables