Node red or github import blueprint in HASS

Hello,

A little bit info about my situation.

I have 2 Marstek batteries @ home, a HWP1 and a Marstek P1 meter. I want to import them in hass.
Reason, the communication between MP1 and the batteries is too bad. It can be better. There are blueprints on the internet but i’m not able to import these.

Is there somebody who can help me step by step? I searched the internet and youtube but i don’t make progress.

Node red and github is already connected to hass but there it stops.

Thanks in advance for helping me.

Bossi

Which blueprints? (link please)
Maybe I can talk you thru this.

Hi,

I’m sorry for my late reply. I didn’t receive an e-mail notification.

I’m also following tweakers community in Belgium/Netherlands and try to understand how everything works.

What i want to install is following link:

So i first opened the readme, in the main config yaml file i added the block.

Than i have to create a subfolder “packages”. Is it a subfolder in home assistant or is it a subfolder under configuration yaml? not clear for me.
And do i name it “packages” or “packages.yaml”.

I know i have to understand first how to interpretate al these pre configurated yaml’s and github or node red things.
But i don’t find he basic explanations. I also know it’s a hard thing to learn if you never programmed your own.

Best regards,

Bossi

In that folder paste the yaml files.

You will also edit configuration.yaml to add these lines, as the repo says.

homeassistant:
  packages: !include_dir_named packages

This is word for word from the directions in the repo.

Check configuration and restart home assistant after editing the packages stuff.
Open your Home Assistant instance and show your server controls.
Open your Home Assistant instance and show hardware information.
You are completely over thinking this…
Make yourself a backup of HA. Test the backup works if you can. Then change whatever and stop being afraid of it… You can always restore the backup. Or make another instance of HA on another machine, and test things there first.

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Thanks for your reply and positive words :+1: .
Later this day I was thinking about it. Take a backup and try to learn.
But in the meantime I had some help from the author himself.
I followed his changes by rdp and i would never had this running myself.

I’m handy with my hands, but this is next level 847 times :see_no_evil: damn :grin: