Help with wmbusmeters add-on needed

catdogmaus · March 7, 2023, 8:32pm

Wmbusmeters add-on stopped working about a week ago after update to 1.11.0-2. The changelog says that HA implements the new format, but fails to specify what the changes in 1.11.0-2 actually are. I also looked at the wmbusmeters docs as suggested, but can not find any error from my side.
Attempt to start gives me simply “Invalid dict for option ‘conf’ in Wmbusmeters (W-MBus to MQTT) (cada3e3b_wmbusmeters).” error.
My conf part in HA is an exact copy of docs suggested conf part!
Maybe someone can specify what actually needs to be done to get this in HA to work.
As usual, help from third-party software developers is very lacking, so maybe here is someone who has been able to get it to function.
My new configuration file I try to use is the following. (This results “Failed to save add-on configuration, not a valid value.” error)

data_path: /etc/wmbusmeters.conf
enable_mqtt_discovery: true
conf:
  loglevel: normal
  device: auto:t1
  donotprobe: /dev/ttyAMA0
  logtelegrams: false
  format: json
  logfile: /dev/stdout
  shell: /wmbusmeters/mosquitto_pub.sh "wmbusmeters/$METER_NAME" "$METER_JSON"
meters:
  - name: MyTapWater
    id: 
    key: 
    driver: multical21
mqtt:
  host: 
  port: 1883
  user: 
  password:

thanks

holly-ghost · March 9, 2023, 9:30pm

I had the same issue. Solved it like this:

deinstalled wmbusmeters addon
deleted directory /config/wmbusmeters
removed addon repository “GitHub - wmbusmeters/wmbusmeters-ha-addon: To become the new public ha-addon repository for wmbusmeters.”
added addon repository “GitHub - wmbusmeters/wmbusmeters-ha-addon: To become the new public ha-addon repository for wmbusmeters.”
searched for wmbusmeters addon in addon-store"
installed “[edge] Wmbusmeters (W-MBus to MQTT)” (the stable version would not install)

conf:

loglevel: normal
device: auto:t1
donotprobe: /dev/ttyAMA0
logtelegrams: false
format: json
logfile: /dev/stdout
shell: /wmbusmeters/mosquitto_pub.sh "wmbusmeters/$METER_NAME" "$METER_JSON"

and in the meters section I put my meters like this:

- name: HKV_EG_Flur
  driver: fhkvdataiii
  id: "30120822"
- name: HKV_DG_BUERO
  driver: fhkvdataiii
  id: "30120826"

Saved config in configuration tab and then started the addon and everything worked fine again…

NoFutureKid · April 18, 2023, 5:42pm

Maybe you can help me with integrating these “fhkvdataiii” thingies into HA.
I have successfully installed the wmbusmeters and getting the data into MQTT,
but I’m lost at the part on HA, where I have to add the sensor.
I only found this example:"

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - state_topic: "wmbusmeters/MainWater"
      json_attributes_topic: "wmbusmeters/MainWater"
      unit_of_measurement: m³
      value_template: "{{ value_json.total_m3 }}"
      name: Water usage
      icon: "mdi:gauge"
      state_class: total_increasing
      device_class: water

Which obviously is for a water meter but not for a heating element.

cloom · July 3, 2024, 6:53am

Hello,

It’s the same just change the device_class and the unit_of_measurement with something that is usable to you:

That gives me:

the state_topic is what you have configured in wmbusmeter:

I hope that helps