19 Sept 2016, 07:22
@Bart
Mysensors devices push their updates to home assistant. You can push an update to home assistant at a regular interval. If the state is the same as before in home assistant, a state change won't happen, so it should be harmless.
For sensors, ie not actuators or binary sensors, I will soon implement forced updates, which mean an update from a sensor device will always force a state change, even if new state is the same as old state. This will enhance recording of sensor values eg when the same value is reported consecutively.
Regarding syncing state at home assistant start, I think this can be solved for non sleeping devices by using discovery, I_DISCOVER, messages. This is on my todo.