Owl Intuition pv & Home Assistant

Feature Requests
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Sorry to ask a beginner question but I currently have 2 owl systems in my building both sending info to different accounts. How would I go about adding them both to HA? Would it be a case of duplicating the installation but with a different custom component name or is it more in depth than that? Thanks for any suggestions and keep up the good work. Was surprised how easy it was to get one working (although I still have a few things that aren’t working properly and I need to work out what its actually reporting on but thats a different day!)

Rob

122

Hi there, I would naively configure the OWL systems to use different ports, and add them as separate integrations in HA with different names indeed. If both use the same port, their updates will overlap and keep overriding each other.

123

Thank you! Is it enough to put them in different named folders (owlintuition and owlintuition2 for example) under “custom_components” folder then set the different port numbers? I have never made a duplicate integrations before!

124

Actually you just need the code to be put in custom_components only once, and then in your config file you’d instantiate two times the same integration with two different names.

One thing to note is the integration makes HA log several warnings because it “waits” for data from owl, and two instances will multiply the effect. Yet it should work.

Hope that helps!

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125

Thank you! I will give that a go! At the moment I am having some issues with one instance reporting different results on the dashboard and the energy dashboard but I am sure I can work that out!

Thanks again.

Rob

126

Hello @glopresti
I have Owl Intuition with three phases (triphase) and clamps. I did it according https://github.com/custom-components/sensor.owlintuition/blob/c7c2082580bc46ac818198cc81ed0ecfe53d5ed5/sensor.owlintuition.markdown
My Config is:

sensor:
  - platform: owlintuition
    port: 4334
    host: 10.0.1.200
    mode: triphase
    monitored_conditions:
      - electricity

I get the data, but after a HA restart it takes a long time to have the system ready and I have a lot of errors in the log.

Logger: homeassistant.helpers.entity
Source: helpers/entity.py:929
First occurred: 16:55:16 (545 occurrences)
Last logged: 18:54:16

Update of sensor.owl_intuition_electricity_today is taking over 10 seconds
Update of sensor.owl_intuition_cost_today is taking over 10 seconds
Update of sensor.owl_intuition_electricity_power_p1 is taking over 10 seconds
Update of sensor.owl_intuition_electricity_today_p1 is taking over 10 seconds
Update of sensor.owl_intuition_electricity_power_p2 is taking over 10 seconds


Logger: homeassistant.components.sensor
Source: helpers/entity_platform.py:860
Integration: Sensor (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 16:55:30 (191 occurrences)
Last logged: 18:54:00

Updating owlintuition sensor took longer than the scheduled update interval 0:00:30

and

Logger: homeassistant.bootstrap
Source: bootstrap.py:513
First occurred: 16:53:17 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 16:54:17

Waiting on integrations to complete setup: sensor.owlintuition

What could be wrong? thanks for help (yes I am new :wink:

127

Hi @tluethi71, I’m afraid you hit HA logs growing quickly with Owl intuition warnings · Issue #32 · custom-components/sensor.owlintuition · GitHub - for which I don’t have a solution. You may try and tune the logging to suppress those messages, as suggested in the GitHub issue.

128

@glopresti thanks. do I correctly understand that does warnings do not impact the system performance and can be ignored?

129

Indeed, those warnings are not critical and should not impact system performance.

130

There seems to be an issue with HA 2024.1 and the Owl Integration

I updated and observed that when HA restarted the initial values were loaded but no further data was received.

Somebody else has reported similar in GITHUB.

https://github.com/custom-components/sensor.owlintuition/issues/36strong text**

I don’t know how to troubleshoot this, but I suspect that others may have updated or are considering an update?

131

I updated to HA 2024.1 a few days ago and have the same issue - initial values loaded after re-start but no further updates received. Is there anybody working on this please? As above, I don’t have the expertise to trouble shoot this but will try restoring an older back up as soon as I get the chance.

132

I restored a backup to HA 2023.10 and I’m now receiving updates again.