Meter Overview

[Byter09]

Type of request

Enhancement

HAOS version

12.1

wmbusmeters version

1.16.1

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Hello!

I am currently in the process of adding all available meters around me to home assistant. I already figured out my radiators, cold & warm water (sadly encrypted) and I can see tons of smoke detectors.

For some meters I had the ID. For others it was a game of finding the right numbers being displayed on the screen. In either case, the printed headers you get when you have no meters set up was invaluable.

I am now at a point that I have tons of meters but I'm still missing my smoke alarms. There's no ID printed on them nor are they noted in the move-in protocol.

My feature request is the following:
In the web interface portion of the home assistant add-on, add a new tab that contains a list of all meters seen in the last 1 to 24h (whatever is reasonable). Columns could include things like: ID, Type, Manufacturer, whether encryption is used, the RSSI and maybe some key values if the data isn't encrypted.

That way I could do the following:

• sort by RSSI (strongest will likely be my flat)
• filter out types I've already set up
• see basic values to confirm it must be my stuff (like triggering the test of a smoke detector and seeing it switch to "alarm" or "smoke" or whatever the value is)

Possibly even a select and "add to my meters" feature for quick and easy import?

The simpler method would be to add a flag to manually enable the "overview" you get when no meter is configured. Maybe there is one? I couldn't find it. I did enable debug for now, but that's spamming way too hard for it to be useful.

I truly hope I stumbled upon something nobody has thought of yet, but maybe I'm just blind.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I appreciate the work with this add-on/tool. It's great, especially after calling Techem and asking whether reading this data is allowed all I got back was "no you may only read the numbers on the device displays" 😐
Turns out tons of their stuff is still unencrypted 🥳 Maybe I'll get the key someday for my water meters...

Anyway, hope this is a good idea :)

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