Feature Request: Uptime and wifi_rssi other debug data as entity

DB1BMN-collection commented 8 months ago

Hi, since we are still observing sporadic restarts I thought it would be a good idea to have the Uptime and other data as entity which could easilier be implemented in Home Assistant etc.

A collegue recommended me the program MQTT Explorer [1] which shows that already uptime, wifi_rssi and heap info are already sent via MQTT. That's fine! grafik

Never the less Home Assistant by default can not display theese data, as they are not defined as an entity I guess.

I was fiddeling yesterday night in the configuration.yaml (which I am a completely noob at) and ended up with an diagram showing Uptime vs. RSSI. grafik

Just paste the following code into the configuration.yaml:

mqtt:
    #AhoyDTU
    sensor:
        - name: "AHOY Uptime"
            unique_id: "ahoy_uptime"
            state_topic: inverter/uptime
            unit_of_measurement: "s"
            icon: "mdi:clock"

        - name: "AHOY RSSI"
            unique_id: "ahoy_rssi"
            state_topic: inverter/wifi_rssi
            unit_of_measurement: "dBm"
            icon: "mdi:wifi"

Take care of the indents and don't forget the dashes ("-") before the "name"-tags!

I think it would be much easier for debugging if anybody could track uptime, rssi and heap-info when they are available as entities and it would help cathc rare restart events.

What do you think?

[1] http://mqtt-explorer.com/

P.S. It seems the "code"-tag seems not to work correctly, WTF!?

MetaChuh commented 8 months ago

hi @DB1BMN-collection

uptime and reboot events are already available at ahoy dtu via api and mqtt. could you help us out with pull requests for your desired changes that are missing for you from your forks, or possibly make pull requests or suggestion at home assistant ? we'll review them and give you our feedback.

many thanks for your help.

stefan123t commented 4 weeks ago

@DB1BMN-collection regarding the issue I would assume that the Home Assistant Auto-Discovery message either does not contain the two topics inverter/uptime and inverter/wifi_rssi yet or you would need to start HASS Auto-Discovery once more under Settings > MQTT Discovery Config (homeassistant) SEND.

@MetaChuh I do not know if he would be able to provide us a PR for the necessary changes.

lumapu / ahoy

Feature Request: Uptime and wifi_rssi other debug data as entity #1481