MQTT Retain Flag?

[AdmiralRaccoon]

Hi there and thanks for this great piece of software. :-D

I´m not a mqtt expert, so I don´t know if this is a MQTT issue, rather than one of hass-workstation-service:

Is it possible to retain the value, for example, "LastActiveSensor", so I could see when the device was last active/online?
Right now, when the device goes to sleep or was shutdown, the sensor value goes to "unavailable" or "unknown".

Thank you and keep up the good work

[sleevezipper]

Thanks for the kind words!

Someone else mentioned this too (on the Discord I think) and I think this would be great!

[nerdosity]

everyone is just here because of this sensor!
I am just dealing with home assistant error, I was using this in an automation but the template{{ (as_timestamp(states.sensor.workstationonline.state) - (as_timestamp(now())))|int|abs > 300 }} returns error when the PC is turned off.

[sleevezipper]

Hi @nerdosity,

Did you figure it out in the meantime? If not, could you create a new issue?

[sleevezipper]

This has been fixed and will be in the next release!