Thank you. Looks like NSPanel Pro is now acting like a ZBBridge-U with Matter sync — nice move! Let me take a quick look at how it plays with MQTT. I’ll let you know soon how it goes.
@MichaelLearnsToCode @JoJo
Update: I started MQTT using the new version of the app. I have a number of observations.
I’ve noticed that NSPanel Pro publishes the Zigbee device state to MQTT only when a parameter changes, for example, state, temperature, etc. As a result, after restarting Home Assistant or the MQTT broker, entities remain without values until the device sends a new update. MQTT publications use retain: false, so the broker does not store the last known state.
To fix this, it would be helpful if NSPanel Pro (or Zigbee2CUBE) published device states with retain: true. This way, Home Assistant could automatically retrieve the last known state after a restart, without needing to manually query each device.
Alternatively, could NSPanel Pro respond to homeassistant/status or broker/status and publish device states upon reconnect?
In its current form, the MQTT integration between NSPanel Pro and Home Assistant is unreliable and of limited practical use.