I've been working on creating Zigbee devices using the EP32-C6 and the Espressif Arduino library and ZHA. It's working and reporting so why would the HA log show it as unknown?
#Working Zigbee device shows unknown in log
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obtuse oracle
looks like it's talking about a button entity that hasn't been pressed yet
Button entities will have the timestamp when they're pressed as their state if they've been pressed, and otherwise "unknown". And I don't think the state is restored after an HA restart
visual totem
OK.. it looks like sensor updates don't update the identify status. My commercial sensors don't show anything in the log for identity.
The Zigbee Arduino library is new. Maybe this is a bug
obtuse oracle
My ESPresese devices show the same as yours:
But a button entity in a Z2M device doesn't. 🤷
probably something in the discovery information is telling logbook to filter it, but I can't find anything obvious
actually, that button comes from the Battery Notes integration, so 🤷
visual totem
It set the ZHA unavailable timeout for battery powered devices to 60 secs and all my battery devices went unavailable, so unknown is unknown
I reported as bug to Espressif but won't worry about it
I guess the unavailable status is what matters if a device quits working or can't phone home
obtuse oracle
yes, or if whatever the availability template says