Feature Request: Publish state when homeassistant/status = online

[maxihatop]

Problem:
After Home Assistant restarts, the state of OpenBK devices is often shown as unknown, and device diagnostics are unavailable.
Currently, the only ways to restore state are:

enable periodic status broadcast (adds MQTT traffic and unnecessary flash wear) [Flag 2 ON],

manually reboot the OpenBK device,

toggle the device so it publishes something.

All three options are inconvenient.

Proposed Solution:
When the device receives the standard HA message

homeassistant/status online

it should immediately publish its full state (the same data normally published on broadcast interval).

Benefits:

Ensures HA quickly restores correct device state after restart.

Eliminates the need for periodic broadcasts (or allows them to be set to a much longer interval, e.g. 10 minutes).

Reduces MQTT traffic and flash wear.

Improves user experience: no manual toggling or rebooting required.

Summary:
→ Problem: after HA restart, OpenBK devices appear as unknown until they publish again.
→ Solution: publish full state once when HA announces itself online.
→ Result: correct state recovery, less traffic, more reliability.

[openshwprojects]

Hm ok, can you check if it works ok?
#1791
PS: where do you get flash wear?

[openshwprojects]

merged

[maxihatop]

PS: where do you get flash wear?

Sorry, there was my mistake, related to another possible issue. Irrelevant to this topic.

[openshwprojects]

Ok I think it's safe to assume it's solved?