Pulse counter and HA down, now what?

ESPHome
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I have a gas meter reader running successfully for a couple of months, using pulse_counter (code see home-assistant/gas4.yaml at 09023df610757605311e0132cfa0723eaf883d0a · swa72/home-assistant · GitHub). If I reboot HA or HA breaks down, I may miss some data as there is no one on the receiving end.

Is there any way to buffer a reading until HA is back online?

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no i don’t think so because you would need another device to record information and then send it to HA.

then if that breaks down you loose data

dog chasing tail

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Thanks for the reply. Can I sum data on the ESP and send that data to HA as well? In other words, I aggregate on the ESP.

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I think HA only accepts real-time data

unless someone else can help.

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That’s ok, if ESP sends the sum as well. ESP resets that counter nightly. So HA records two data streams: the pulse_counter and the sum. It doesn‘t matter if HA misses pulse counters as it also (albeit a bit later) receives the sum.

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no problem thanks for the update :ok_hand:

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@Blacky can you link the reader, I’m trying to do something like this.