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sage cave Jul 11, 2023, 5:00 PM

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Hello,
Im able to pull my water meter readings through rtlamr2mqtt add-on and do see messages in mqtt. How do i add it as a sensor or entity so that my energy dashboard start reflecting the consumption as well as 'leak now' binary?
Thanks!

strong forum Jul 11, 2023, 5:07 PM

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did you read the docs?

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https://github.com/allangood/rtlamr2mqtt#readme-starts-here

sage cave Jul 11, 2023, 7:33 PM

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Yes, followed the doc but not sure how to add 'water' as energy meter or get 'leak now' binary. Also, leaving device class or state class blank gives an error and i had to put 'energy' and 'total increasing' respectively. I dont see sensor in entities or in dev tools. Thanks

strong forum Jul 11, 2023, 7:34 PM

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just go to settings -> dashboards -> energy and add it there

sage cave Jul 12, 2023, 12:34 AM

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Yes, thats how it supposed to work. But i dont see any entity related to water energy when i try to add it . I'll post some screenshots later

deep grove Jul 12, 2023, 8:08 AM

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To have the water meter show up for selection in the water meter list set device_class: water not energy.

sage cave Jul 12, 2023, 5:40 PM

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deep grove To have the water meter show up for selection in the water meter list set ```dev...

This helped me! Thanks a lot!! It was not clear in doc.s though.

deep grove Jul 13, 2023, 5:30 AM

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sage cave This helped me! Thanks a lot!! It was not clear in doc.s though.

I agree it's not really clear, but it is mentioned in the example configuration file:

    # A device_class to define what the sensor is measuring for use in the Energy panel
    # Typical values are "gas" or "energy". Default is blank.
    device_class: water

sage cave Jul 13, 2023, 7:26 AM

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Im sure, when i looked at the doc couple of months ago, the device class was blank. I asked this qs now as i have started detecting leak in my water usage and wanted to enable water usage and leak sensor.
Infact, the readme.md had a commit in May 19 to add 'water' word. i guess, i had the doc page cached somehow in my system. Anyways, thanks for the pointer!

strong forum Jul 13, 2023, 8:47 AM

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None of this should really be necessary if MQTT autodiscovery is working

deep grove Jul 13, 2023, 7:11 PM

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You're assuming HA auto discovery has been set up by the device. I too have a water meter reading device that does outputs its information through mqtt, but it doesn't submit the auto discovery information required for HA to auto discover the information. So it completely depends on which device Strider has.

strong forum Jul 13, 2023, 8:08 PM

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deep grove You're assuming HA auto discovery has been set up by the device. I too have a wa...

Not sure what device you are talking about, but auto discovery is part of the addon, as stated in the docs

#Water meter sensor