Disable Item if not plugged in. If "Offline" dont ping or contact

[Airmr]

Hi,
i have several items, mostly Powerplugs that are not used all the time. I simply joined them to the zigbee2mqtt installation and took them from power.
Now i see in Z2M that it still gives a lot of error messages like "Failed to Ping", etc.
Is there any way to just disable an item that it is not checked while disabled?

Thnx in advance

[Danit2]

#15851

Read the first point of this release note.

[OrbitingOcelot]

I hope you do not mind if I piggyback on this with a related question:
I have lights and lightstrips that also get triggered by physical switches (meaning they may be without power for several hours a day until the switch is flipped). However, they do get used often, so a "disable" option is not helpful in this case.

Is there any way to disable the "Failed to ping XXX messages", or supress them for specific devices?
In my setup its perfectly fine for some devices to disappear from the network for hours/days and rejoin when needed.

[Xitro01]

Did you ever find a solution to this? I always need to click away alot of those pop-ups before I see the required messages.

[geezer78]

He Guys, I agree it would help me as well to have an option to disable/suppress error messages for a specific device.
this is another function than (temporarily) disable your Christmas lights as in the mentioned release note.

[BentHaase]

It would be great if there was a flag you could set for specific devices, such as 'manually powered device' (or a more fitting term), to account for devices that are physically switched off via light switches (e.g., most Ikea light bulbs). Z2M should not fail to ping these devices or ignore the underlying Zigbee messages; it just clutters the logs unnecessarily.

[Azimthz]

It would be great if there was a flag you could set for specific devices, such as 'manually powered device' (or a more fitting term), to account for devices that are physically switched off via light switches (e.g., most Ikea light bulbs). Z2M should not fail to ping these devices or ignore the underlying Zigbee messages; it just clutters the logs unnecessarily.

I totally agree with @BentHaase. Here is my use case, I have some ceiling hue ligths that are operated with a traditional switch, meaning that when I turn them off they totally lose power. I need very low interval for the availability feature to capture as soon as possible that they are off. The downside is that I will keep polluting the zigbee network with pings when I already know they will not become availabe again until I turn then on again.
A possible solution is to create a flag at device level, that when that flag is enable, the availability feature will operate as normal until it gets n consecutive failed pings (to avoid false negatives), from that point on, it will not ping the device again until the device broadcast to the network again. This way the ping pollution on the network will be greatly reduced while maintaining a quick response time when the device becomes unavailable. I just created a feature request here.
Thank you all for this great project!

[koying]

+1
I also have lights operated mainly with a manual switch, and for those I would like to not have the UI cluttered with notifications.
Actually, UI notifications are not that useful to me, so a way to simply disable them would make me happy 😁