Hichi USB IR in HA

[querys]

Hello Community,
I tried to connect the Hichi USB IR Smart-Meter reader to my HA.
HA is running in KVM on Openmediavault. The USB is available in HA

I figured out, I need maybe an MQQT Broker an installed the HA Addon for MQQT, afterwards I got the MQQT Integration in HA and I was able to use test-page of this integration to publish and receive messages.

But what are the next steps?

[tomton68]

Did you get it working meanwhile?

I found a few threads, but am not sure yet how to send the data, to make the ISKRA ME162 providing the meter data, using the IEC 62056-21 protocol.

The other threads are:

HA is not recognizing my Hichi Smartmeter

Hi everyone, I have my Home Assistant set up on Raspberry 4 with SSD drive via USB3. Got myself a Hichi Smartmeter (supportet according to EDL21 - Home Assistant) Installed Addon File Editor and set the file according to the manual: Complete File: # Loads default set of integrations. Do not remove. default_config: # Load frontend themes from the themes folder frontend: themes: !include_dir_merge_named themes #Specific: sensor: - platform: edl21 serial_port: /dev/ttyUSB0 name:…

Problem Power consumption recording with IR head Weidmann from Logarex LK13BD

Thanks. I saw it as well. The meter is to be requested for sending the data. But I’m quite new and do not know how this should be done. This picture shows it is technical feasible, since it is no problem using a laptop to read the ISKRA ME162 meter: [Emlog-test-2] See also this log for more people having the same issue: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/ha-is-not-recognizing-my-hichi-smartmeter/521332

[querys]

No I did not figure out, how to handle this. I’m using IOBroker now to publish the values via MQTT, where I can read them with HA.