High all. I am a new user. Late last year I installed HA on a RPI5 to automate car charging wrt. solar production. Yesterday I bought a rtl-sdr device and set it up with AMR2MQTT. I am able to see my water usage and various flags from the Neptune R900i Meter. It took me about 8 hours over two days to get it working! Mostly because doing things on HA is very tedious and hard to figure out. I was this close to switching to Linux and get it running in minutes. I stuck with it and got it working. Now I am here to thank people who help maintain/improve HA.
But I am also here to vent. Having gotten the AMR2MQTT configured and working I struggled for 30 minutes to create an automation to send me a notification when the water leak flag from the meter has been ‘1’ for 12 hours. I keep getting an error:
“Message malformed: must contain at least one of below, above.”
What ‘message’ is it referring to? Nothing in the automation configuration is called a message. So total head scratcher for me.
I am using the visual editor for everything and selecting a state and setting a duration criteria. On ‘save’ I get the above error. I tried saying the flag is above 0, but that does work either (using yaml editor). I am not clear which item this error is referring to either. It would have been nice if the error message specified what ‘message’ it is referring to.