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IoTaWatt for Home Assistant
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Backport HA iotawatt integration changes #26

Closed jyavenard closed 3 years ago

jyavenard commented 3 years ago

This pull request is to be put on top of https://github.com/jyavenard/iotawatt_ha/tree/IntegrateLocally

It backports all the changes made into HA's official iotawatt integration and add the high resolution energy sensors.

wishie commented 3 years ago

So I have just updated HA to 2021.9.0 and am now using the 'built in' integration, but I have issues with sensors in the energy dashboard. The instructions on the HA page are not clear, or not working as expected. Can you explain what I need to do to have valid sensors for the energy dashboard?

jyavenard commented 3 years ago

If you are using a net solar system and need import and export ; the current version in iotawatt can't work. The one in this branch can.

Simply put the custom_components/iotawatt folder in the HA custom_components and restart HA

jyavenard commented 3 years ago

So I have just updated HA to 2021.9.0 and am now using the 'built in' integration, but I have issues with sensors in the energy dashboard. The instructions on the HA page are not clear, or not working as expected. Can you explain what I need to do to have valid sensors for the energy dashboard?

It's a last minute change in HA that broke it: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/55554

This branch fixes it ; you just need to use the integration in custom_components for now.

wishie commented 3 years ago

So Im not installing the 0.0.8 release, but a specific branch? How do I achieve this?

gtdiehl commented 3 years ago

So Im not installing the 0.0.8 release, but a specific branch? How do I achieve this?

If you want to get up and running right now, update the configuration.yaml with the integration sensor for each of your sensors from the IoTaWatt that has a Unit of Watts

This is the example for the Home Assistant webpage

sensor iotawatt:
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.mainsexport
    name: Total Grid Export
    unit_prefix: k
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.mainsconsumption
    name: Total Grid Consumption
    unit_prefix: k

In the above example there are two sensors on the IoTaWatt, sensor.mainsexport and sensor.mainsconsumption. Replace those with the sensors from your IoTaWatt. Of course you probably have more than two, so just copy and paste and create as many given each one a unique name. Restart HA and the sensors with the names you gave will be available in the selection list for the Energy Dashboard

jyavenard commented 3 years ago

this will only work with 2021.9 ; will approach this differently.