Open fakethinkpad85 opened 1 year ago
I can look into this if you can provide what kind of MQTT message format HA expects.
it is possible to manage all types of mqtt messages in HA by manual configuration or by using eg node red . but if you want values sent via mqtt to enter fully automatically in HA, it is required that the mqtt messages are sent in a specific way.
Im no programmer, but after some inspirtation from Ocara and help Morten Vinding, and a long discussion with ChatGPT, I now have a powertaged2mqtt HA edition. It will auto discover and you should be able to find the powertag under entities. Might need a routined programmers touch, but it works.
Compile it, add it to your powertagd folder, and run it with (change the IP, user and password): ./powertagd -d /dev/ttyACM0 | ./powertag2mqtt -broker tcp://10.0.2.11:1883 -user YOURUSER-password YOURPASSWORD
Credit: https://github.com/octera/energy-center/tree/main/powertag?fbclid=IwAR2A0RXt6b_I2pR4gDLSSGt0RxWB3d7syT4UOet9jsvkbNWSY6xvOd6Y6dU https://github.com/MortenVinding/energy-center/tree/main/powertag
and just to finish it off, so you can put the data into the energy dashboard:
sensor:
Eg.:
sensor:
Thanks to Jlama for the great work with the dongle software :) Much appriciated. Next step would be to make an addon for HA, and run the powertagd and powertag2mqtt inside a docker there.
Hey folks, I've been working on adding MQTT (and HA's MQTT Discovery) support to this project. It's not in the shape for a PR yet but I've been running it reasonably reliably for a couple weeks now.
https://github.com/jlama/powertagd/compare/master...SeanHood:powertagd:master
It would be very nice if you could implement support for MQTT communication. I've managed to get your application running in my rpi4 and get values from the powertag sensors, but I can't manage to implement a function to send the data out to external mqtt broker / Home Assistant. It would be greatly appreciated if you could find time to finish MQTT support.
Hey folks, I've been working on adding MQTT (and HA's MQTT Discovery) support to this project. It's not in the shape for a PR yet but I've been running it reasonably reliably for a couple weeks now.
SeanHood: I get this error when I try to install your modified version of jlama/powertagd. Any idea what is wrong or what I am doing wrong?
pi@pitouch:~/build$ git clone https://github.com/SeanHood/powertagd
Cloning into 'powertagd'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 200, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (200/200), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (123/123), done.
remote: Total 200 (delta 108), reused 167 (delta 76), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (200/200), 6.05 MiB | 5.71 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (108/108), done.
pi@pitouch:~/build$ cd ~/build/powertagd/src && make
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o ash.o ash.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o crc-ccitt.o crc-ccitt.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o ezsp.o ezsp.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o ezsp_types.o ezsp_types.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o gp.o gp.c
gp.c: In function ‘gp_handle_commissioning_frame’:
gp.c:335:11: warning: variable ‘gpd_key_mic’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
335 | uint32_t gpd_key_mic = 0;
| ^~~
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o log.o log.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o serial.o serial.c
cc -g -O1 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wno-unused-function -DENABLE_MQTT -c -o powertag.o powertag.c
make: *** No rule to make target 'cJSON.o', needed by 'powertagd'. Stop.
pi@pitouch:~/build/powertagd/src$
Noticed the description mentioned upcoming MQTT support and just wanted to let it be known that it would be a welcome feature. Dont run your firmware at the moment (or own a Dongle) but if it would support MQTT directly to Home Assistant i would really appreciate that.
Seems this is the only hope or apprcoach that would support having the PowerTags be paired to HA at the moment, been looking for almost a year for a solution to this.