ha_discovery: publish state/availability under home_automation prefix

Follow the standard MQTT Discovery split: discovery config stays under the HA
discovery prefix (homeassistant/.../config, required), but the actual state and
availability are published under our own prefix (default home_automation/). The
config payload's state_topic/availability fields point at the new prefix so HA
reads state from there.

- new config ha_state_topic_prefix (default home_automation).
- build_discovery_payload + all publish_* split discovery_prefix (config topic)
  from state_prefix (state/availability). energy-cost still omits availability;
  modbus availability structure unchanged. Tests updated.
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2026-06-24 16:21:15 +02:00
parent 9bc46f8d2d
commit d7f0731d1c
6 changed files with 253 additions and 34 deletions
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@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
# Home Assistant MQTT Discovery (T08 wires into CONFIG_FIELDS/UI; T11 does publishing).
ha_discovery_enabled: bool = False
ha_discovery_prefix: str = "homeassistant"
# State/availability topics use a separate prefix so they live outside the HA discovery
# namespace. HA still receives state via the state_topic declared in the discovery config.
ha_state_topic_prefix: str = "home_automation"
# DSMR smart-meter ingest via MQTT (M6; default off — opt-in).
# Subscribe to dsmr_mqtt_topic when dsmr_ingest_enabled=True.
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@@ -122,6 +122,12 @@ CONFIG_FIELDS: tuple[ConfigField, ...] = (
"ha_discovery_prefix",
"HA Discovery Prefix",
),
ConfigField(
"Home Assistant Discovery",
"HA_STATE_TOPIC_PREFIX",
"ha_state_topic_prefix",
"HA State Topic Prefix",
),
ConfigField("Modbus", "MODBUS_POLLING_ENABLED", "modbus_polling_enabled", "Modbus Polling Enabled", input_type="checkbox"),
ConfigField(
"DSMR",
@@ -351,6 +357,7 @@ def _settings_payload(settings: Settings) -> dict[str, Any]:
"mqtt_tls_enabled": settings.mqtt_tls_enabled,
"ha_discovery_enabled": settings.ha_discovery_enabled,
"ha_discovery_prefix": settings.ha_discovery_prefix,
"ha_state_topic_prefix": settings.ha_state_topic_prefix,
"dsmr_ingest_enabled": settings.dsmr_ingest_enabled,
"dsmr_mqtt_topic": settings.dsmr_mqtt_topic,
"dsmr_sample_interval_s": settings.dsmr_sample_interval_s,
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@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ Design
doing any work. Callers never need to guard these conditions.
- **Stable unique_id**: derived from device ``uuid`` + metric ``key``, never
from mutable fields like ``friendly_name`` or auto-increment DB ids.
- **Discovery topic format**: ``<prefix>/<component>/<node_id>/<object_id>/config``
- **Discovery topic format**: ``<discovery_prefix>/<component>/<node_id>/<object_id>/config``
where ``node_id`` is the device uuid (slugified to be safe) and
``object_id`` is a uuid-prefixed stable string.
- **State topic format**: ``<prefix>/<component>/<node_id>/<object_id>/state``
- **Availability topic**: ``<prefix>/modbus/<node_id>/availability`` (shared
across all entities of the same device; publishes "online"/"offline").
``object_id`` is a uuid-prefixed stable string. Uses ``ha_discovery_prefix``
(default ``"homeassistant"``), which must stay under the HA discovery namespace.
- **State topic format**: ``<state_prefix>/<component>/<node_id>/<object_id>/state``
Uses ``ha_state_topic_prefix`` (default ``"home_automation"``), separate from
the discovery namespace so HA discovery and state/availability topics live under
different prefixes.
- **Availability topic**: ``<state_prefix>/modbus/<node_id>/availability`` (shared
across all entities of the same device; publishes "online"/"offline"). Also uses
the state prefix, not the discovery prefix.
- **best-effort**: functions catch all exceptions internally so that callers
(e.g. the Modbus poll loop) never crash due to MQTT publish errors.
"""
@@ -107,7 +112,8 @@ def _unique_id(entity: ExposableEntity) -> str:
def build_discovery_payload(
entity: ExposableEntity,
prefix: str,
discovery_prefix: str,
state_prefix: str | None = None,
) -> tuple[str, dict[str, Any]]:
"""Build the HA MQTT Discovery config topic and payload dict for *entity*.
@@ -115,8 +121,14 @@ def build_discovery_payload(
----------
entity:
An ``ExposableEntity`` (from ``build_catalog``).
prefix:
The discovery prefix (e.g. ``"homeassistant"``).
discovery_prefix:
The HA Discovery config topic prefix (e.g. ``"homeassistant"``).
This determines where HA looks for the discovery config topic.
state_prefix:
The prefix used for state and availability topics (e.g.
``"home_automation"``). When omitted or ``None``, falls back to
``discovery_prefix`` for backward compatibility (e.g. in tests that
pass only one prefix).
Returns
-------
@@ -124,10 +136,13 @@ def build_discovery_payload(
``(topic, config_dict)`` — the config topic and the HA Discovery
payload (not yet JSON-serialised).
"""
if state_prefix is None:
state_prefix = discovery_prefix
device_uuid = entity.device.identifiers[1]
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, prefix)
state_t = _state_topic(entity, prefix)
topic = _discovery_topic(entity, prefix)
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, state_prefix)
state_t = _state_topic(entity, state_prefix)
topic = _discovery_topic(entity, discovery_prefix)
config: dict[str, Any] = {
"unique_id": _unique_id(entity),
@@ -188,7 +203,8 @@ def publish_discovery(session: Session) -> None:
logger.debug("publish_discovery: skipped (MQTT/Discovery not enabled or not connected)")
return
prefix = settings.ha_discovery_prefix
discovery_prefix = settings.ha_discovery_prefix
state_prefix = settings.ha_state_topic_prefix
try:
catalog = build_catalog(session)
@@ -199,7 +215,7 @@ def publish_discovery(session: Session) -> None:
for entry in catalog:
entity = entry.entity
try:
topic, config = build_discovery_payload(entity, prefix)
topic, config = build_discovery_payload(entity, discovery_prefix, state_prefix)
if entry.enabled:
payload = json.dumps(config)
mqtt_manager.publish(topic, payload, retain=True)
@@ -241,7 +257,7 @@ def publish_states(session: Session) -> None:
logger.debug("publish_states: skipped (MQTT/Discovery not enabled or not connected)")
return
prefix = settings.ha_discovery_prefix
state_prefix = settings.ha_state_topic_prefix
try:
catalog = build_catalog(session)
@@ -255,7 +271,7 @@ def publish_states(session: Session) -> None:
continue
entity = entry.entity
try:
_publish_entity_state(entity, prefix, session)
_publish_entity_state(entity, state_prefix, session)
except Exception:
logger.exception(
"publish_states: error publishing state for %r; continuing", entity.key
@@ -329,13 +345,13 @@ def publish_device_state(session: Session, device: Any) -> None:
if not _should_publish(settings):
return
prefix = settings.ha_discovery_prefix
state_prefix = settings.ha_state_topic_prefix
device_uuid = device.uuid
online = bool(device.last_poll_ok)
# Publish availability topic first.
try:
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, prefix)
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, state_prefix)
avail_payload = "online" if online else "offline"
mqtt_manager.publish(avail_topic, avail_payload, retain=False)
except Exception:
@@ -367,7 +383,7 @@ def publish_device_state(session: Session, device: Any) -> None:
if entity.component == "binary_sensor" and "online" in entity.key:
# Publish the binary_sensor state too.
try:
state_t = _state_topic(entity, prefix)
state_t = _state_topic(entity, state_prefix)
mqtt_manager.publish(state_t, "ON", retain=False)
except Exception:
logger.exception(
@@ -383,7 +399,7 @@ def publish_device_state(session: Session, device: Any) -> None:
value = entity.value_getter(session)
if value is None:
continue
state_t = _state_topic(entity, prefix)
state_t = _state_topic(entity, state_prefix)
mqtt_manager.publish(state_t, str(value), retain=False)
except Exception:
logger.exception(
@@ -406,8 +422,8 @@ def publish_device_offline(session: Session, device_uuid: str) -> None:
return
try:
prefix = settings.ha_discovery_prefix
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, prefix)
state_prefix = settings.ha_state_topic_prefix
avail_topic = _availability_topic(device_uuid, state_prefix)
mqtt_manager.publish(avail_topic, "offline", retain=False)
except Exception:
logger.exception(