I understand that I am just trying to find out why my new sensors are not getting an auto assigned node id when all I have done is move from a ethernet gateway to a serial gateway. We have had a few version updates in HA and I am not sure what is the cause.

My controller is Homeassistant. On separate hardware. My current gateway is a esp8226 but I would like to have more visible debugging, that is why I am looking into a raspberry