UPDATE: SOLVED
I’m using MQTT dongle from SmartGateways.NL
Here are my installation notes:
Hardware Installation:
Integration with HA:
- GREAT documentation by Roel van Wanrooy
- Smart Meter Advanced Energy Dashboard for Home Assistant - HAProfs.com
- First install Mosquitto MQTT Broker on Home Assistant using this manual
- Connect the Smart Meter Gateway using this manual.
- Install HACS (Home Assistant Community Store) using this manual
Issues that I ran into:
- I had to install the
DSMR readerintegration
- Settings → Devices and Services → Integrations → DSMR reader → ADD
- Entities are not available.
- Developer Tools → States → Entities: the entities are indeed not there, BUT…
- Settings → Devices & Services → Entities: the entities ARE there but they are set to
disabled
- Now entities show up but all values are 0
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On the smartMeterGateway’s internal web page, I see:
|Telegrams received |84|
|Telegrams with errors |84|
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Reason: wrong firmware
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Solution: → Firmware menu → I had to chose Belgian Firmware (now it is no longer in the screenshot because it is installed)
- In the SmartGateway’s web page, leave the MQTTP prefix blank (that is: if you don’t know know what you are doing, like me)
The documentation says to leave the prefix field in the smartGateway config empty; which I did
I HA → MQTT settings → Listen to a toppic: I see
homeassistant I’m not sure if that is correct and/or how that relates to the MQTT prefix in the SmartGateway’s configuration (where it is set to blank)
Hopefully this helps somebody
thanks
/chriV