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I did restart my HA because it was required, and now all the sensors associated with RTLAMR2MQTT are gone and I wonder why? 
Mosquito is up and running, and RTLAMR2MQTT seems to be connecting to it as per logs unless I am wrong: What am I missing here? |
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Hello reypm - |
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@dbarnesmsn nope, I thought it was just me, but ... @allangood can you give us a hint or something to try on our end? 
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reypm - 
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Everything looks good from your pictures. The add-on doesn't use "retain=true" by default anymore. This means that when HA restarts, it cannot see the devices anymore. This has been fixed in the "dev" branch but wasn't pushed to the "main" branch yet. |
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Allan - |
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What does this mean? The old entities became unusable? Because I have restarted Mosquito and I see this add-on connecting successfully to it, and data is also being pushed from the devices through the add-on to MQTT. However, MQTT is still not seeing the meters and entities. What am I missing here? How can I test the |
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I'm glad that the add-on is useful for you. Thank you for having the time for testing and reporting! |
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Hi @allangood , can I get some ideas on why sensors become unavailable so frequently? // energy // water I am seeing logs coming out of this add-on (this is only for energy because water has not been used during night, but they do show up from time to time during the day): The add-on seems to connect successfully to Mosquitto broker: I have restarted both add-ons (this one and Mosquitto), and water seems to be alive and sending data, but energy is not - and that is not possible because AC is on and lights at home are on and a few more devices 
Can you think of anything I could be missing here? This is driving me crazy and I can't find the root cause nor the solution |
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I have the same problem, rtlamr2mqtt log shows the readings, but the sensor doesn't. It happens after any home assistant update/restart and most of the time after a restart. To go around the problem; I "stop" the rtlamr2mqtt add-on, I make sure the devnum (i.e. device_id in config) hasn't changed, and "start" rtlamr2mqtt to make it work after any home assistant restart then I wait up to an hour for the sensor to get updated, because rtlamr: "-unique=false" doesn't work, issue #337 (my meter reports every 10 minutes). |
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@amordicus, how are you adding the water meter to the energy dashboard? Can you show me? All the entities I have tried to use do not work. 
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Hi @reypm and maybe @allangood can confirm that I do the right thing, I remember having problems after switching to the new and improved rtlamr2mqtt and finally got it to work.
state_class total_increasing is important for energy dashboard. And make sure your m³ is superscript in unit_of_measurement. My mqtt configuration is (in the past I didn't need to specify the login but at one point it stopped working, I don't know why) I leave the ha_autodiscovery to true which doesn't make sense to me, but it seems to work: ha_autodiscovery_topic: homeassistant My sensor identity id in mqtt is sensor.water_meter_reading, spawned by rtlamr2mqtt. I added the name water_meter (name) to the energy dashboard. I've noticed that your sensor is sensor.water_meter (this could be a leftover sensor from the old rtlamr2mqtt) the new addon adds "reading" water_meter_reading. You may need to delete the sensor.water_meter and restart HA, I think I did that among many other things that I don't remember, let me know how it goes? Extras information sensor:
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@amordicus, here are my findings:
q: Does it matter whether I put The MQTT integration for me shows the same as you: 
I have this extra configuration at |
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@reypm gal should work fine HA will take care of the conversion because not everybody uses metric! Check in developer tools that sensor.water_meter_reading is ok: You seem to have 2 sensors sensor.water_meter_reading and sensor.water_meter. Check sensor.water_meter in developer tools and see if it is valid. Did you try deleting sensor.water_meter? Your extra configuration is fine and should display in gallons! |
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@amordicus I do not know where the sensor.water_meter is coming from since it does not even display at the Developer Tools, the 
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Check for sensor.water_meter in entity, perhaps? Or in development tools Statistics "Fix Issue". If I understand correctly, sensor.water_meter is valid in energy board according to your screenshot, but not sensor.water_meter_reading? |
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@amordicus, not sure exactly what I did, but after several HA and add-ons restarts, the right entities are showing up, and I was able to get reading in both. Thank you for your time 
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Note, you have to be patient with energy board if you're currently not using water because rtlamr2mqtt reports only if a change occurred since the last restart, making testing a bit of a pain. I think allangood's fix about retain=true will help. I don't think it is in the may release yet. |
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Hi @reypm and maybe @allangood can confirm that I do the right thing, I remember having problems after switching to the new and improved rtlamr2mqtt and finally got it to work.
My meters rtlamr2mqtt configuration is:
protocol: scm
name: water_meter
format: "####.###"
unit_of_measurement: m³
icon: mdi:gauge
device_class: water
state_class: total_increasing
state_class total_increasing is important for energy dashboard. And make sure your m³ is superscript in unit_of_measurement.
My mqtt configuration is (in the past I didn't need to specify the login but at one point it stopped working, I don't know why) I leave the ha_autodiscovery to true which doesn't make sense to me,…