core: Binary ping sensor unavailable after HA (re)start

The problem

Ping binary sensor not available - entity is not created for unavailable remote hosts or after ping timeout Manually reloading ping integration from HA frontend will make failed entities available

Environment

Home Assistant Core release with the issue: 0.116.4
Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known): 0.115 ?
Operating environment (OS/Container/Supervised/Core): linux
Integration causing this issue: binary_sensor.ping

Problem-relevant `configuration.yaml`

- platform: ping
  name: Ping Sonoff02
  host: sonoff02
  count: 2
  scan_interval: 300

Traceback/Error logs

2020-11-13 15:05:59 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.ping.binary_sensor] Timed out running command: `['ping', '-n', '-q', '-c', '5', '-W1', 'sonoff02']`, after: 8s

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Comments: 20 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Unfortunately not, there is not solution cause sensor simply doesn’t exists so you cannot update it. You need to manually click “reload ping integration” after each HA (re)start. Someone should mark that as BUG

rds76 on Nov 19, 2020