Thank you to everyone in this thread for their experience and support. I have been getting my power consumption steadily for a few days now that I have everything configured correctly.
My lessons-learned:
- Configure HA using the XceltoMQTT add-on. This is the way.
- Per Xcel support, the meter does not respond to ICMP, so do not spin your wheels trying to ping the meter for communication. Use nmap to confirm the target and open port. My router does not accurately report the connection status because the Itron seems so locked down, but its been reporting solid since configured properly.
- Make sure you have Mosquito MQTT installed in HA or you will never detect the meter as an MQTT device
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Next Quests:
- How can I read my gas consumption from Xcel? I’ve seen where this can be measured with an ESP32+magnetometer, but isn’t this being read remotely as well? This thread discusses capturing the SCM messages that the meter readers pick up when driving through. Any suggestions on the best way to do this today?
- Tracking Power costs? Anyone have this configured for Xcel?
- Tracking Water. This should be more straightforward with something like Flo.