Use unknown
as the "missing" HASS MQTT Discovery state payload
#294
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Describe what the PR does:
When encountering a data point with no value, the Home Assistant MQTT Discovery publisher:
None
It turns out that
None
will cause other HASS integrations (like Google Assistant) to fail. So, this PR makes the following changes:available
(since we have no way of knowing things like whether the gateway is connected).unknown
(a valid value).This is technically a breaking change since downstream HASS users will need to be aware that entities (a) will now always be available and (b) plan for an
unknown
state if appropriate (e.g., for something like wind chill, where the value exists only under certain circumstances).Does this fix a specific issue?
Fixes #293
Checklist:
README.md
with any new documentation.AUTHORS.md
.