espeasy and fhem controller showing absent even it is available

[riker1]

Hi

how to I avoid the status of ESP devices in FHEM shown as absent
ESP device is available
It is only logging the right value if I do send a command like GPIO 0,1 etc.
Mainly the logis showing status absent, but not the status of the GPIO

Thanks T

[riker1]

Discussed this also in fhem forum.
looks like esp easy is not sending anything to fhem.
only when I did send a gpio command.
but after I while it is not answering a get precence from fhem

[Shardan]

fhem has an absence check for ESPEasy devices.

If a device does not send data for a defined time fhem assumes it is absent.

There are two possible ways to handle this with fhem:

fhem's ESPEasy interface gives two parameters for every device, one is the time threshold - after this time a device is called "absent".
Second parameter is a setting if presence should be checked at all.
You may switch the presence check off - bad idea in my eyes, it exists for a good reason. This is good only for battery/deepsleep items.
It might be possible to set the timeout to a long time... not really good as an "absent" message might be very late.

A better way: Use one task in ESPEasy, set it to system info -> RSSI and set delay to 60 seconds. This sends RSSI value to fhem once per minute.
Set the timeout in the ESPEasy-device (not in the bridge!) to 300...600 seconds. This should be really long enough. So if one or two RSSI-data are missing,
nothing happens, but if they are missing loger then 5...10 minutes fhem will show an "absent".

My ESPEasy devices are configured using RSSI, a reading group in fhem shows all RSSI values accumulated in one "box".
Works nicely for long time now.

Regards
Shardan