EDL21 Automatic PIN entry Powermeter after power failure

Feature Requests
1

With many smart electricity meters, such as my LandisGyr from NetzeBW, the extended data output must be reactivated with a flashlight after a power failure.
If you are not at home, valuable data is lost until reactivation.

The network operator (like NetzeBW) refuses to change the restart behavior of the electricity meter (although it could, according to LandisGyr).

Here my request:

If the EDL21 plugin recognizes that no more data is coming from the electricity meter, it will try to re-enable it with the flashlight sequence.

What is needed?

Watchdog that recognizes in the EDL21 plugin that no more current data is being received.

In the yaml config or in the user interface, the option to store the activation PIN and the sequence for the respective meter.

The sequence could be stored as a code in this format, for example:

1 = light signal incl. 1 sec pause
0 = Pause 1 sec

Code:
reactivation_sequence: “100111100111011100001001001001001101”
etc.
If anyone has any suggestions for improvement, please let me know.
Thank you.

2

Do you mean an actual flashlight must be use to enter some on/off sequence in front of a sensor on the device?

That’s quite specific, and you’ll probably need to go DIY with some simple LED, here. Definitely not something that HA could implement in a generic way.

3

It is more worse then you think.
I must remove the Optical Reading Head or Optical Probe (from EDL21)
and use the flaslight.

Isn’t it possible to send the “flash” with the plugin via Home Assistent with the Optical Reading Head or Optical Probe?

Thanks.
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