Has anyone had any experience with the Wink Refuel device? I have one that I’ve had for a while, and it would be useful if it could be integrated with HA, but I’m not exactly sure how it works. It doesn’t need a Wink hub (not sure if it would connect to one), but instead apparently uses WiFi and connects to an app on my phone (or it might connect to something in ‘the cloud’, which the phone app connects to). Any thoughts on how to get HA ‘watching’ the device?
Use the wink component and it will automatically show up!
Thanks - not sure why I wasn’t able to find that.
Only thing I note is that several of the supported devices in that list say ‘No Wink Hub Required’, but the ‘Refuel’ one does not say that - so will I need a hub to make it work?
Oh good call out, nope that’s just a miss on my part. I’ll add that on there.
No hub is required.
So I added Wink to my config and restarted - Now I see the refuel, but what it’s returning doesn’t make any sense. When I first added it to HA, it was returning ‘0.0’ for about an hour (When I added it to HA, it had been up with Wink for at least a day, so that’s not just a ‘wink has no value because it hasn’t reported yet’ issue), then ‘0.41’ for just under four hours, then it went to ‘0.65’ and stayed there until last night, and is now showing ‘0.39’. The grill hasn’t been used or moved since it got added to HA, so if that’s supposed to be something relevant to the fuel level, it shouldn’t have changed. Any ideas?
That is correct, it is the decimal percentage of fuel remaining.
Make sure you have the tare set correctly and it should be noted that all of the quirky brand products are flaky. You should see the same changes in the Wink app.
Thanks for pointing this out. I have 2 of those Refuel that I wasn’t sure how this would work. Bookmarking this thread for future reference.
Ok, so ‘0.39’ would mean 39%, I assume? Or is that actually 0.39% (0.39% actually would make more sense as the app says time to replace and I know the tank is pretty light - I really think it’s way less than 1/4 full).
Hmm, well the API doc states that it returns the percentage as a decimal 0.0 - 1.0 so it sounds like that would be 39% but… who knows. It also depends on what you set the tare weight to.