I am having the same issue, there’s an Edit button that doesn’t do anything. Under the “Meter Setup” line it shows “Ready to Go”.
Agreed, mine stopped working some time ago (though still see meter on my LAN) and assumed it was an issue with my Pi/setup (for other reasons). But given what I’m others are experiencing and what @mrpburke observed, I’ve got the same thing. Seems like they can’t even connect to it though the Excel portal. Sigh. Anyone know anyone at Xcel who knows about this feature and it’s broke? (I’m in Denver, it it matters)
Seems to be back up. I’m showing connected to wifi but I’m still just getting connection refused. On demand read is also working again.
Once you got the LFDI added on Xcel’s site, how long did it take before you could access it from HA?
I just registered and got the “up to 5 days” notice. We’ll see if it actually works this time… got the same message last time and it never did end up connecting.
When I set this up a few months ago, it was within moments I could connect via HA. It seemed to be an automated process. I’m in denver CO if that matters.
Likewise. Connection refused. May try a different set of credentials.
Edit: looks like only one LFDI at a time? I was unable to add a second.
Edit2: for those with connection refused, are you even able to ping your meter on your network? I am not even though it shows connected on my router settings.
My meter has an IP address but does not respond to ping
It would occasionally when I set it up a couple days ago but no response now.
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I dont think they have ever responded to pings. Mine never did, before during and after when it was working. I’d just it connected on my router.
I was able to nmap and - after 2.5 hrs - saw this… so it is alive-ish, even if the port is currently closed.
If you wanted to check just that one port - and save heaps of time - this is the command:
sudo nmap -sT -p8081 -Pn 192.168.20.54 [sub your ip address]
I get the same result: port 8081 status is closed
When was your meter installed?
Mine was installed last May I think but I dont recall ever receiving an email about it so maybe that’s my same issue.
I believe it’s from when you requested it to be provisioned on Launchpad (rather than installed). But we’ll see!!
Ahhh…you’d think they would have some automatic process to handle the licensing.
OP here. I have not been as enthusiastic about this as I was when I started this thread. I have read most of these replies, but over time. I haven’t tried this curl solution yet, despite it being in my inbox for 6 months 
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I just scanned through these replies again, and I see some bits of information spread out between the 150+ replies, and some very good back and forth on solving some issues.
Is there a place I can link in my original post with some sort of documentation for the current solution? I was hoping to see some basic info, and some steps detailed for how to get access to the launch pad, and then how to set up home assistant.
Maybe someone who wants to be responsible for this could make a github or gitlab project with a decent readme and some example scripts? Then the wiki or issue tracking features there could be used to better organize the ideas, thoughts, summaries, and problems there?
Should this be that place? GitHub - zaknye/xcel_itron2mqtt: Broadcast your Xcel smart meter to MQTT
I’m happy to see all of these ideas and solutions here. But it seems like we have dwelled on one specific solution involving the launchpad and curl with the meter on the local network. This thread would be a good place to discuss alternatives, while focusing questions about that solution to a project page somewhere. And, I can save a lot of people some time if I just link to that project (or any other solutions) in the first post.
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Mine was a little different:
00:07:81:XX:XX:XX, which was also itron.
I’m also a 00:07:81
I just started today. I haven’t gotten any data from my meter yet. So take this advice with a grain of salt. But, it looks like entering the LFDI is done in the "Add device’ button:
This is all a little confusing, but it seems like what we are doing is telling the meter that we have built or bought a neat little device with a specific LFDI. That box/device will be requesting info from the meter, so we have to tell the meter that this box/device is ours, and we “trust” it.
The “device” will be a script or home assistant, and it will use the cert and key we generated. The meter will verify the device is trusted by using the LFDI.
Most of the steps I’ve taken so far have been just a few minutes. But, as I said, I haven’t gotten anything back yet. The curl command just returns “Connection refused” on port 8081. Maybe I need to have that manual step taken care of? IDK. The emails are going to my wife, so IDK what they have sent me. I’ll update if I magically get in.
I can also confirm that it is on my home wifi. It doesn’t respond to pings. I have it in my normal LAN group, but after it is working, I would love to get it into a VLAN where it can’t call home, and see if it breaks anything. I would hope xcel is still using their own mesh for their traffic. If nothing else, I should be able to put it in a vlan where it can’t see anything else on my LAN.
FYI - for those of you in my situation of there’s an Edit button but it does nothing I just received this from Xcel after emailing them:
It looks like your meter has not been licensed yet, which is preventing you from connecting fully to your Wi-Fi.
We are manually licensing meters, and you will receive an email once your meter is ready to fully connect. It does take a few weeks, so we appreciate your patience.
It’s been a few weeks since mine was installed (and I enrolled as soon as the guy left my house) and it seems crazy to me that they are manually licensing these meters, but it is what it is, so I guess I have to be patient.