OctoPrint
Entities Unavailable in Home Assistant
When my printer is not printing, many of the entities in Home Assistant go unavailable. The Cancel, Pause, and anything related to print time are unavailable. I have the retain setting on, could we change the settings so they default to a value of 0 or something instead of going unavailable?
Sounds like this is working as it should to me. If there's nothing to pause or cancel, the ability to do so is unavailable and thus reflected as such.
A more logical way to get rid of unavailable entities in your HA dashboard would be to hide the entities if nothing is printing (using e.g. the conditional card).
They’re not in my dashboard, but I have a page that shows all unavailable entities. I may have to just filter these out, but I was hoping they could have a default value of 0 or something instead of just going unavailable.