Hi everyone, I’ve been using MQTT with Hass.io on my Raspberry Pi 3 and have been really impressed with how smoothly everything works, especially with my Sonoff devices running Tasmota. However, I ran into an issue where the state of my switches and lights wouldn’t persist after a Home Assistant restart. This was a bit frustrating because the devices themselves would remain on, but HA wouldn’t recognize their state. I thought enabling the ‘retain’ flag would fix this, but it didn’t solve the problem entirely. After some research, I discovered that while the Mosquitto broker’s persistence settings were enabled, there was more to it. I found that ensuring the MQTT clients reconnect and resubscribe properly was crucial. I adjusted my configuration to include more robust reconnection settings and made sure all relevant topics were retained. Now, my system maintains the state even after restarts, and I couldn’t be happier with the solution. If anyone else is facing similar issues, I’d be happy to share more details or help troubleshoot!