I am having a heck of a time, and I think a lot of it is because I am trying to set up HA at a site that doesn’t have internet. When I have internet, a lot of things run smoothly, but then when I carry all my stuff to the site where I want to use it, so many things go wrong, they are nearly endless!
Examples:
File editor looks OK right now, but at the other site the Editor start page was all garbled up.No functionality, no file lists.
ESPhome devices install and run fine initially, but I can’t update them without bringing the sensors, the HA, my computer, and I’m starting to suspect even the router back with me to an internet connection to make changes, then re-install everything when I get back.
My Historian is collecting data sometimes, but only sometimes, and I don’t know why. I have an energy meter that was working great two days ago and recorded data over NYE into new year’s day but then stopped recording when I went to configure and attach my second esphome device. Now neither one will record, and display, however I can export a csv file of data and see there are some things in the database. It’s very weird.
I created a script to enable_recorder whenever the volts on the meters is 100<V<200, which turns green when tested, but the logger doesn’t indicate it was triggered., Instead it was triggered by another automation which also triggers on voltage. Why does the automation trigger it but the script doesn’t? I manually ran the script multiple times. Could not get it to show up on the logger.
I also see that there are duplicate names because I couldn’t get my esphome device working and reinstalled the program on a new esp32 board, so the variables look like: Shop_Amps_L1 and then each item has a “duplicate” Shop_Amps_L1_2 from the other device.
I tried deleting and recapturing one of the meters on the new router today to see if that would clear things up and it has not. I am not certain where to start at this point.
Option1: back up HA, delete all the esphome devices, move all the hardware including the sensors and router to where I have internet and use only that router to recapture all the devices and check the dashboards are working before taking it all back and re-installing the hardware.
Option 2: if I can get into the config file and have some way of knowing what to change and where, maybe I can remove the objects and devices which are getting messed up and put in their current IP addresses? I wrote them down, I just don’t know if that’s useful, but it’s potentially less work. However it’s a steep learning curve, as I have no idea where to look or what to change.
Option 3: please suggest something! I really don’t know what is likely to work.
