Sensor for consumption at the moment

[mariomonte]

Hi, thank you for your plugin.

I thought I could also read the current consumption but all i get is the sum for in and out. Why I can't see the current consumption?

[marq24]

The Sensor with the id '0100100700ff' - Power (actual) (or 'Wirkleistung aktuell' in German) should show you this info - BUT this depends from the supported data the electricity meter actually provided and from the mode your tibber bridge is running...

[mariomonte]

Thank you for your response.

I have only these sensors: sensor.ltibber_0100010800ff sensor.ltibber_0100020800ff sensor.ltibber_0100010800ff_in_k sensor.ltibber_0100020800ff_in_k

Is the mode given by tibber or the electricity meter or could I configure this mode within the bridge webserver?

[marq24]

Crazy shit! What should I say?

This integration works as follows... 1'st it try to get the "mode" of the tibber - currenly only implemented mode is '3' - AND if the mode could not be read (is one of MODE_0_AutoScanMode, MODE_1_IEC_62056_21, MODE_2_Logarex, MODE_3_SML_1_04, MODE_10_ImpressionsAmbient, MODE_11_ImpressionsIR), then it also tries to read "plain-text"...

IF one of this (two) modes is providing data that could be parsed to "OBIS-Codes", then the integration woll read all OBIS-codes that are available (parseable by the current version) and then this list of codes will be matched with the "sensor-list"...

And in your case there only match two codes (0100010800ff & 0100020800ff)...

I am not an expert here - but I could imagine that there are so many reasons/options what cause this situation - could be the electricity meter, could be a setting in the tibber pulse...

Can you share the output of your http://[YOUR-IP]/nodes/1/data ?

[mariomonte]

Could I sent you the output to your email address? help@su??ort.e?acb?rry.c?m

The content is encrypted and I don't know if the registration number of my electricity meter is included. So I don't want to post the output to the forum...

[marq24]

yes - you can use that - and include a screen shot as well - TIA...

but if it's SML encoded... then I guess the decoder will only return these two values...

[mariomonte]

I also think so. The content seems to be too small for more information. Email is sent out.

[marq24]

the data looks indeed extremly "short" - so I guess the tibber realy just reads the Zählerstand IN and OUT... that's it :-/

So I am sorry Mario - I guess the root cause is, that the Tibber just reads this data from the Stromzähler...

[mariomonte]

I tried the liveMeasurement supported by the developer-cloud-api. Tibber responses also only:

{ "liveMeasurement": { ... "minPower": 0, "averagePower": 0, "maxPower": 0 } }

So this information seems not to be available for my Stromzähler or for the configured "mode".

[mariomonte]

Closed for now - if we don't know how to change the mode... ... and thank you for your efforts.

[mariomonte]

I found the reason for the missing values. It's not enough to disable the pin at the Stromzähler. It's also necessary to switch the INFO-Submenu to "on".

Now I'm receiving also: sensor.ltibber_0100100700ff sensor.ltibber_0100240700ff sensor.ltibber_0100380700ff sensor.ltibber_01004c0700ff

[marq24]

could you please share what you did in order to "turn the INFO-Submenu on"?

[mariomonte]

I assumed that after entering the pin and disabling it on the electricity meter, everything was correctly configured. I also noticed the current consumption displayed on the meter's screen.

However, I then searched for the device's documentation and found it online: https://www.stadtwerke-haltern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/stadtwerke/Netz/Dokumente/Kurzanleitung_eBZ_STW_Haltern.pdf

It's a brief manual for my electricity meter (eBZ DD3).

What was important was the INFO flag at position 9 (represented by 9 light pulses). This flag needed to be set to ON. The display of the electricity meter remained the same, showing identical information as before. However, using your plugin, I noticed that my total values now included numbers after the decimal point. Previously, only 1 KWh was displayed. After reinstalling your plugin, I received additional data.

So, consulting the documentation proved helpful!

[marq24]

CrazyShit! - Thanks for sharing - I would not expect something like that - So it's really the fact, that you can/must adjust your electricity meter in order to get "more" data... So looks like I was extremely lucky with my local setup as it was when I started with all this - if my electricity meter would just have provided two values I would not had thought, that there might be more!

Even if it's not that important - IMHO just restarting the integration or HA completely should have brought you the additional entities - but that's not so important...