I want to create an integration to integrate VE.Direct messages I receive via USB from a Victron Energy Solar Controller.
The protocol is fairly easy, just a list of \r\n<key>\t<value> with the last one having Checksum as key and some simple checksum as value.
I created a skeleton for the integration and added an usb property to the manifest.json, but I miss, how I can now connect to USB.
I expected to have some kind of reader or object I can read from to then go on with the next step to parse the input and map it for home-assistant.
I have to hin that I’m not at all familiar with python and how to structure the code there. I have more knowledge on Java, Ruby JavaScript, so once I have the reading part, I hope to be able to do the mapping and provide the data as sensor information.
I have tried to understand this from documentation about the Manifest, did not find if the discovery would help me, and I’m not sure, if I need a config flow.
Would apreceate some hints,
Rainer
P.S.: Was not able to add more than 2 links as my account is new, have removed the links to the documentation I took a look at.
