Since i log my power meters (tasmota on Home assistant) i got aware that the data stop changing every day around 2pm … when i restart the Home assistant app, the values in the imported devices get immediately updated. Why is that integration not reliable? What can be done to improve reliability?
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there’s no such thing as THE Home Assistant app.
Always specify which one, please.
There’s “official” and community apps, some brands have both versions.
For some brands there’s even 5 different apps 
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What exactly is your issue? The Home Assistant (official) app is easy to find, and no, ‘the’ is not part of its name. I write in complete sentences because clarity matters. If you don’t have anything useful to add and are just here for strange comments, maybe it’s better not to reply at all.
The other apps name is: „Home Assistant Community“, so its easy to distinct from „Home Assistant“ (which i use and refer to)… I wrote Home assistant app and not Home assistant community app
You wrote “Home assistant app”, not “Home Assistant app” 
If you have issues with an app, contact the developer.
I did! But maybe some one from the community had the same issues, thats why im asking here…
You forgot community at the 2nd apps name …
Are you all serious here? I have a question and we are discussing this nonsense?
No, you wrote “assistant” with lower case “a” and there’s no such app. There’s only the “Home Assistant” app with upper case “A”. I mean, if you’re all in on clarity, that matters, right?
Sorry, but @Peter_Kawa made a valid point asking about which app specifically. You’re the one getting all defensive over nothing.
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You clearly don’t get it: I just ask additional info when it’s unclear at first, simple as that. Nothing more nothing less.
Like your famous line
THE app.
Maybe it’s al clear in your head, but we can’t look into it, can we?
Have lots of fun with THE app I’d say 
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I just got it … but initially i didnt see where it could be unclear, since i mentioned the exact app name … i should have used: io.home-assistant to be 100% clear … will do it the next time i have a question regarding an app, since we have kind of a zoo for some integrations
By now im checking the Total_in value of one of my powermeters every 30 minutes and if i get the same value as i stored 30 minutes ago, i send a push notifigation to me and restart the app by executing:
Homey.apps.restartApp({ id: 'io.home-assistant' });
return true;
I hope this helps. Until now, all seems stable und im looking forwrd to get the 1st restart message of my flow…
As a Dutchie I do understand the mixup of the names and always good to clear up the meaning as we are not all native English speaking. Now to your problem: besides no idea what is causing this you write that this happens on the same time every day? Are there any processes running on this time on Homey OR HA? I use the official app to read a power meter but don’t have this issue. To be fair: I only have some devices integrated from HA to Homey so mostly depending on direct integrations / apps on Homey. Did you try Community app to see if this is a difference with the official app?
I have a lot z-wave devices and these tasmota (which are read from MQTT server on homey) iomported from Home Assistant dueto the non support for my devolo smoke detectors. The integration did not stop at the exact same time… and also not today. I was checking multiple times today and always found recent data
Sorry but I don’t understand. Data is already in MQTT server running on Homey? So a device on HA sends the data directly to the MQTT server on Homey? How is the HA official app being used then? Is there no way to use the MQTT client on Homey itself to get the data visible?
The MQTT Client on Homey cant find any device so i use the Client on Home Assistant and then import them back to Homey… i also somehow don’t like that, but i have no clue, how to find a device with the Homey MQTT Client
It has already been explained to you that there is no generic MQTT auto discovery app for Homey.
The MQTT Client app is just that: an MQTT client. It offers no auto discovery, it is not able to create devices, the app description states that “With this app you will be able to send messages to a topic and receive messages from a topic”. That’s the scope of that particular app.
Someone already suggested taking a look at the MQTT Hub app, which (again, quoting its description), “…also includes an MQTT Device, which can be used to add Virtual Devices with mappings between Homey capabilities and mqtt topics.”
But again, not auto discovery.
I was aware of it and configured everything manually, but it still didn’t work. I’m quite sure I used the correct data, but nothing showed up. Since there were no errors or feedback at all, it was impossible to figure out what went wrong. So eventually, I gave up and stuck with Home Assistant.
[EDIT] finally got it running with MQTT Broker 
.. was a bit tricky, but chatGPT fixed my mistakes in the configuration json based on MQTT Server logs
{
"meter_power": {
"capability": "meter_power",
"stateTopic": "tele/WattWaechter_EG/SENSOR",
"setTopic": "",
"valueTemplate": "MT173.Total_in",
"outputTemplate": "",
"displayName": "Zaehler-EG"
},
"meter_power.1": {
"capability": "meter_power",
"stateTopic": "tele/WattWaechter_DG/SENSOR",
"setTopic": "",
"valueTemplate": "MT174.Total_in",
"outputTemplate": "",
"displayName": "Zaehler-DG"
},
"meter_power.2": {
"capability": "meter_power",
"stateTopic": "tele/WattWaechter_Keller/SENSOR",
"setTopic": "",
"valueTemplate": "MT631.Total_in",
"outputTemplate": "",
"displayName": "Zaehler-Keller"
},
"meter_power.3": {
"capability": "meter_power",
"stateTopic": "tele/WattWaechter_Keller/SENSOR",
"setTopic": "",
"valueTemplate": "MT631.Total_out",
"outputTemplate": "",
"displayName": "Einspeisung-Keller"
}
}
Home Assistant stopped working again, and my check flow detected this and attempted to restart the service multiple times using:
Homey.apps.restartApp({ id: 'io.home-assistant' });
return true;
Unfortunately, this had no effect — the app did not restart as expected.
After I manually restarted the app this morning, all the data came back immediately.
[EDIT] Didnt notice that there is already a pre defined app restart action, so i switched to this and hope this helps next time i experience this issue
Use the community app.. it actually has a community behind it.. the “official” app doesn’t you are at the mercy of Athom and they don’t have a very good track record with helping people also they are not on this forum (their words) so this is useless
