H801 discovery and home assistant

[marcelgln]

There is a lot of information related to auto discovery, but most of it is a bit mixed up between HASS and Tasmota native.

From what I understand Home assistant discovery is deprecated, so Setoption19 must be set to 0.

I have an H801 configured as 5 PWM channels and basically is has 5 PCM controls and 5 on/off switch, which ideally should be advertised in the discovery message. In HASS I only see 5 switches (from which the friendly names and channel mapping seems a bit messed up, but that's another story)

If I look in the discovery message I see 5 time and 'rl' with value 2 (is it somewhere documented what this indicates ? )
and 0 switches and buttons defined (I assume these are input switches and buttons, can somebody confirm ?)

Based on the JSON and the assumption that switches and buttons are inputs, it seems there is no option to
have an output which exposes both a 'power' switch as well as a dimmer.

If not, is there an option to change the the auto discovery json message, so it indicates dimmers (assuming value '2' which is now there is a switch)

Any insights would be appreciated.

[sfromis]

When using SetOption68, you are no longer using a configuration as a normal light, and therefore it is not covered by the automatic discovery data. Part of this is that you do not have any "dimming" with SetOption68 (that would be if you could use the Dimmer command), but instead controlled with the "lower level" Channel command, which is a different feature without the "bells and whistles" of lights.

The Tasmota support for 5 PWM channels is based on RGB+CCT, which should be discovered by HA as a bulb. One bulb only.

This old thread describes most of the discovery payload: #9267
The value 2 in "rl" basically indicates that it is a lamp on/off, but there is no provision for describing the Channel setup.

Short version: When using SetOption68 you do not have automatic discovery matching the specific setup. As the older MQTT Discovery is no longer available in regular builds, you do not need to update SetOption19 as 0 is already the default.