Valetudo: MQTT connection fails until robot is rebooted

Describe the bug

From time to time, Valetudo is not able to reconnect to MQTT broker after losing the connection, unless the robot is manually rebooted.

To Reproduce

Cannot be reproduced, happens randomly.

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Logs

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MQTT configured
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Connection to MQTT broker closed
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Connected successfully to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Connected successfully to MQTT broker
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MQTT configured
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Error
MQTT error: Error: read ECONNRESET
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Connected successfully to MQTT broker
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MQTT configured
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Error
MQTT error: Error: read ECONNRESET
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Connected successfully to MQTT broker
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MQTT configured
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MQTT configured
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Error
MQTT error: Error: read ECONNRESET
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Connection to MQTT broker closed
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Attempting to reconnect to MQTT broker
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Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker...
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Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker...
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Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker...
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Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker...
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Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker...

Vacuum Model

Roborock S5 and Dreame Z10 Pro

Valetudo Version

2021.12.0, but also happenend on every earlier version since approx 5 months

Expected behavior

After losing connection to the MQTT broker, the device should properly reconnect.

Additional context

After some days of everything working fine, suddenly the robot loses connection to MQTT and is not able to reconnect, until I manually reboot it via power button. The network connection is fine and the issue appears when the robot is in it’s dock. Valetudo web interface can still be accessed and the device is fully functional. Only MQTT does not work anymore. Disabling and re-enabling MQTT does not solve the issue, only a reboot of the robot. Rebooting my MQTT server does also not help, and other MQTT devices keep on working, so it is definitely nothing with my MQTT server.

The issue faces also on both of my robots, but randomly and not at the same time. It happens approx. 1 - 2 times a week / per robot.

According to the log, it looks like, that after some connection retries, it keeps stuck in “Disconnecting from the MQTT Broker…”.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 35 (12 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

42a5613d19cd46bba0e5243f656d062f8a4d4415

This commit fixes another issue with the mqtt interface that also led to it being stuck forever.

Hypfer on Dec 29, 2021

I am also having this issue with the Dreame Z10 Pro that I just got yesterday to replace my Roborock S5 (which never had this issue). It would appear that it went dark around 0500 MST and didn’t come back up until I rebooted the unit over SSH. I’ve set the logging level to debug (The log viewer in 2021.12.1 was a great addition), and will report back once I see it happen again.

The following screenshot is from my Home Assistant instance where the device is connected via MQTT

While I understand that Hypfer (Not tagging them so they don’t get pinged) hasn’t experienced this issue, it’s clear that a subset of users are. Therefore, it will be on the community to troubleshoot this issue. So far, this issue has been reported with the following vacuums:

Roborock S5
Dreame Z10 Pro
Viomi v7

Apocrathia on Dec 19, 2021

Because it doesn’t happen for a lot of other users of this robot including the author of the software

Okay, then I will close this issue, as it seems to not meet these criteria. Thank you for your time.

daniel1v on Dec 19, 2021

I have the same problem with my Roborock S5 as well.

ctvedt on Dec 10, 2021

Please re-read this comment. If you still have questions, re-read it again until there are no more questions. https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo/issues/1270#issuecomment-997337801

Hypfer on Dec 21, 2021

@Hypfer I have a similar problem with a Roborock S5 (from 2018). I’m using valetudo (2021.12.0) with Home Assistant (2021.11.05) and its Mosquitto broker addon.

It takes only hours before the connection between HA and Valetudo breaks and I can’t control it from HA anymore, Valetudo works.I had this setup for a long time and it worked great but I’m using valetudo only for some months now.

I can’t find anything obvious in the logs. Valetudo (or the S5) seem to restart each night at 3:00.

How can I help to debug?

thomaswr on Dec 19, 2021

ced9ee1b3312489c0c937723ba8744c21264f540 might fix this.

It is however still recommended to fix the network if ECONNRESET is a daily occurence.

Hypfer on Dec 19, 2021