IoTaWatt - missing sensors?

mmiller7 · March 19, 2023, 8:38pm

Just noticed that I’m missing all the “outputs” sensor data from my IoTaWatt. Not sure exactly what point this changed, but I just noticed it today.

Why would this be, and how do I get the rest of my sensors back?

nkrick · April 27, 2023, 4:43am

I just installed IotaWatt and have the same problem. Did you ever figure this out?

tom_l · April 27, 2023, 5:38am

Have a read of this:

github.com/home-assistant/core

Assign unique ID to iotawatt outputs

home-assistant:dev ← llamafilm:dev

opened 09:18AM - 28 Jan 23 UTC

llamafilm

+4 -0

## Proposed change Currently, output sensors do not have a Unique ID, so they d…on't appear grouped under the IotaWatt device, which is confusing for new users and makes people think they are missing. Outputs don't have channel numbers but this format will still be unique because IotaWatt doesn't allow multiple outputs with the same name. ## Type of change - [x] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) ## Additional information - This PR fixes or closes issue: fixes #55489 - I'm not sure what kind of test could be added for this, but it works on my system ## Checklist - [x] The code change is tested and works locally. - [ ] Local tests pass. **Your PR cannot be merged unless tests pass** - [x] There is no commented out code in this PR. - [x] I have followed the [development checklist][dev-checklist] - [x] The code has been formatted using Black (`black --fast homeassistant tests`) - [ ] Tests have been added to verify that the new code works. To help with the load of incoming pull requests: - [ ] I have reviewed two other [open pull requests][prs] in this repository. [prs]: https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+-author%3A%40me+-draft%3Atrue+-label%3Awaiting-for-upstream+sort%3Acreated-desc+review%3Anone+-status%3Afailure

Short answer: nothing will be done.

nkrick · April 27, 2023, 6:23pm

Thanks, I had not read that, so it is nice to see the explanation of why they don’t show up grouped as part of the IotaWatt Device. I did end up discovering that the IotaWatt outputs were available in the Energy Dashboard even though I couldn’t see them as part of the IotaWatt device. I had also looked for them in Entities, and couldn’t find them, even when I noticed they were available in the Energy dashboard. As of this morning, the entities are showing up too.

While it would be nice to have them grouped as entities under the IotaWatt device, at the end of the day, as long as the entities are available, it doesn’t actually matter for me if they show up on the device or not.