I live in University Place and we’re just starting to get the new “advanced” power/water meters from TPU that can provide. I have a friend with a Rainforest EMU-2 device (via Puget Sound Energy) that feeds into his Home Assistant, so I recently reached out to TPU to ask if they had similar functionality. Unfortunately, their Sensus meters are not compatible and use a fully encrypted radio signal (FlexNet?) that I can’t access with any of the existing SDR packages, either.
The rest of this thread is two-fold:
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My inquiry caught the eye of their R&D project manager and we had a chat about them possibly providing a publicly-accessible API for users of software like Home Assistant. I’m certain this will move “at the speed of government” but there was talk of an eventual focus group and discussion about other features we “advanced users” might be interested in. I’ll post updates in this thread as I receive them, but please chime in if you are interested in any of this, as it might help speed things up if there are a bunch of us.
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In the mean time (since I couldn’t find anyone else working on this) I’ve started experimenting with a basic web scraper that should be able to log into the standard “my account” mytpu.com interface and download the data used to render their usage graphs. Thankfully, the data format looks pretty straightforward. Once I have a working prototype data grabber, I’ll share a link to a repo for others to play with and figure out how to get the data into HA.