theDontKnowGuy

Thank you for your replay @DTTerastar. I spent three hours with this doc. the example on the doc shows: sensor: - platform: mqtt_room device_id: 123testid state_topic: "espresense/devices/123testid" my configuration is:...

Sure, I only got a dead entity: 7 hours ago is when I last restarted HA.  

Thanks @DTTerastar but they are very well connected, all espresence , and I have six of them, are reporting and are alive via their mqtt communication. There is something off...

At least for me, this wasn't the case. What did solve my issue of devices not being recognized in HA was (after a **very** long trials and errors): I had...

Thanks for the quick replay. I have been testing in further, iPhone to iPhone worked great. iPhone to browser (ARC) didn’t work (as described) but to Chrome worked well. So,...