Meshtastic plugin still communicates even, when the node is powered off

[Sabering1]

Meshtastic Firmware Version

latest

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timezone	Europe/Belgrade
config_dir	/config

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Describe the issue

I disconnected the node from power to update it and i was curious to see if i can still access it via the plugin webui, turns out i can and seems to "work" even if its disconnected, i can send messanges over mqtt and lora, however that should not be possible as the node is no longer active

node still works even if its not there

Reproduction steps

1. Install plug-in, configure it
2. Power off node
3. Access it from the meshtastic tab
   ...

Home Assistant Debug logs

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Home Assistant Diagnostics dump

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Meshtastic Node Debug logs

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[broglep]

Doesn't really seem plausible. It might make the appearance to work (because of proxy), but when the node is powered off, there is now way that communication can happen between HA integration and the node.

Can only think of minor improvement of trying to shut down the proxy when the underlying connection to the gateway node is lost, but some other users would want to keep connection rather active (independent of short disruptions of underlying connection)

[Sabering1]

Would it be possible to add a crossed out meshtastic icon to that specific node or maybe a warning that the connection has been lost for X amout of seconds in the meshtastic tab?