gtdiehl / iotawatt_ha

IoTaWatt for Home Assistant
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Confused with current versioning, and HACS vs HA built-in. #31

Open wishie opened 3 years ago

wishie commented 3 years ago

I appear to be running iota watt_ha 0.0.8 in HA 2021.9.1 and I have manually created 'integration' sensors, and things appear to be working as they should.

I assume that the HA in built version was supposed to automatically create these 'integration' sensors, as the 'wh' sensors from the iota watt itself dont appear to be of much use (due to an API limit/bug?).

I really don't want to much around too much with my Energy Dashboard in HA as it seems to be working, but I am not sure if I should update my HACS install, or use the HA built in version?

Can someone please give me some advice?

esmithferal commented 3 years ago

Likewise it would be good to know if it's worth moving over as I assume longer term the HACs version will be deprecated as the integrated solution will be preferred?

It would also be useful to perhaps add whatever information on the plans to the description as nee users likely will only want to use the built in solution from now on.

jherby2k commented 2 years ago

I tried switching to the built-in integration with 2021.10 yesterday since I saw that it now includes the accumulating sensors, and for whatever reason none of my outputs show up. Only inputs. Switched back to HACS and its working again...

Both versions throw a lot of warnings / errors in the logs. I'm not complaining, just unsure of where the work is going on now. Will both be maintained? Should I submit a bug report in the HA repo?

mmiller7 commented 1 year ago

Been digging quite a bit tonight I think there might actually be some bugs/hard coded values in the time computations portion of the library iotawattpy that both integrations presumably depend on adding to the headaches.

Agree the built-in one has zero functionality for the outputs-sensors, I'm having to try and go back to this one again.