When a device is offline or unreachable during Home Assistant startup,
previously raised . HA's built-in
retry mechanism uses exponential backoff up to 15 minutes, which leads to
a poor user experience for local LAN devices.
Catch initial connection errors during and log a
warning instead of failing setup. This allows platforms to set up and
entities to be created (in an unavailable state), while the coordinator
continues background retry polling.
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