Traeger Pro 780

Problem On grill models without a physical pellet hopper sensor (e.g. Pro 780), Traeger firmware always reports `pellet_level: 0` in the MQTT status payload as a sentinel value, not a real reading. This causes the Pellet Level entity in Home Assistant to permanently display 0%, which is misleading because the entity appears functional but is silently reporting a hardcoded value. ## Root cause The `TraegerSensor.native_value` for `pellet_level` falls through to the generic `state["status"]["pellet_level"]` return, which blindly returns `0` regardless of whether a sensor is physically present. …

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