Solarmanpv-mqtt sensors

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Hi,

I recently started using the excellent solarman-mqtt to read out my solarmanpv inverter and get it into MQTT.

That part is working, I can see the values in mqtt explorer.

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What I can’t get to work is the template sensors to show the actual values in HA. They all stay on “unknown” for some reason.

This is what I’m using to parse them:

sensor:
  - name: "solarmanpv_inverter"
    unique_id: "solarmanpv_inverter"
    state_topic: "solarmanpv/inverter/deviceState"
    json_attributes_topic: "solarmanpv/inverter/attributes"

  - name: "solarmanpv_logger"
    unique_id: "solarmanpv_logger"
    state_topic: "solarmanpv/logger/deviceState"
    json_attributes_topic: "solarmanpv/logger/attributes"

this is in a file under configuration/mqtt, which is being pulled in through

mqtt: !include_dir_merge_list configuration/mqtt/

in configuration.yaml.

The entries are being created in HA, but they’re all unknown. I don’t get it.

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Well, this being an IT problem, I spot the problem after explaining it here.

The MQTT sensor: is a map, not a list, so I needed to use !include_dir_merge_named …