Hi. I recently had to replace a malfunctioning 10 year old TED/Spyder energy monitor, and decided to get the Fusion SmartHome with 16 circuits at Amazon for about $130. I’ve got it installed, and it works fine with the vendor’s app, but I want to be able to collect all the historical data and keep it local. To do that, I’ve got HA installed on a Raspberry Pi 5 and I’m trying to connect it to the power monitor. I got the configuration.yaml from the vendor’s setup guide (Homeasistant) but I’m not able to get data from the power monitor. I have noticed, though, that if I go into Settings → Devices & Services → MQTT → Configure and click “Start Listening” (I’ve got a # symbol in the box for “Topic to subscribe to”), I get the initial “online” message and then, about twice a minute, I get what I’m sure is the data from the power monitor. It starts with {
“sense”: [
[
1225,
0,
0,
13103,
0
],
etc, where the first number is voltage in 0.1 V units, then current, power, and energy in and out. When I go to the Overview, though, it lists all of the sensors (five listings for each current transformer, each associated with one of the five categories I just listed) with “Unknown” next to them.
I found that when I click on one of these, I get a box which includes a gear wheel which originally didn’t let me do anything due to the lack of a unique ID. I’ve gone back to the yaml file and added unique IDs (mac address, current transformer number, topic number) and now I can click on those gears, but they are already marked as both VIsible and Enabled.
I feel like I’m very close to getting it working, but rather than stumble around in the dark for a few more days, I thought perhaps someone could point me in the right direction. I’m guessing there is some very simple solution to this (box I forgot to check, etc.) that I just don’t know. Thanks.