Smappee power meter integration?

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I think I have to give up. I don’t have the skills to figure this one out. I was able to create a file on my pi with the report from the smappee which then updates every second automatically. But I can’t figure out how to extract the 3 power consumption values from the report with the log reader. And even if I was able to extract them, then I need to add them up to one number to display in Pimatic. I guess it was just not meant to be for a smappee integration in Pimatic 😐

{"report":"Instantaneous values:<BR>voltage=230.4 Vrms<BR>FFTComponents:<BR>Phase 1:<BR>\tcurrent=0.184 A, activePower=29.333 W, reactivePower=30.911 var, apparentPower=42.614 VA, cosfi=68, quadrant=0, phaseshift=0.0, phaseDiff=0.0<BR>\tFFTComponents:<BR>Phase 2:<BR>\tcurrent=0.104 A, activePower=11.979 W, reactivePower=20.773 var, apparentPower=23.98 VA, cosfi=45, quadrant=0, phaseshift=0.0, phaseDiff=0.0<BR>\tFFTComponents:<BR>Phase 3:<BR>\tcurrent=0.371 A, activePower=54.618 W, reactivePower=65.961 var, apparentPower=85.639 VA, cosfi=63, quadrant=0, phaseshift=0.0, phaseDiff=0.0<BR>\tFFTComponents:<BR><BR><BR>Phase 1, peak active power 4697.049 W at 20/10/2016 19:23:30<BR>Phase 2, peak active power 6522.785 W at 11/11/2016 14:48:50<BR>Phase 3, peak active power 3234.044 W at 21/11/2016 17:56:55<BR>active energy RMS per phase mapping combination<BR>phase mapping 210=1956.698 kWh [ -1/0]<BR>phase mapping 12=1111.021 kWh [ 1/2]<BR>phase mapping 21=972.035 kWh [ 1/3]<BR>phase mapping 102=2698.374 kWh [* 1/3]<BR>phase mapping 120=1433.229 kWh [ 1/2]<BR>phase mapping 201=1288.379 kWh [ -1/2]<BR><BR>active energy RMS (solar) per phase mapping combination<BR>phase mapping 210=0.0 kWh [ -1/0]<BR>phase mapping 12=0.0 kWh [ 1/2]<BR>phase mapping 21=0.0 kWh [ 1/3]<BR>phase mapping 102=0.0 kWh [* 1/3]<BR>phase mapping 120=0.0 kWh [ 1/2]<BR>phase mapping 201=0.0 kWh [ -1/2]<BR><BR>"}

What are you using now?
Is this “report” written to a file?
Then you can use the Log-Reader Plugin. (I don´t use it, so i can´t help)

There is no power-meter device in Pimatic.
Use a Variables Device and create your own.

Adding Variables is not a problem. Simply create an expression variable and add Power1+Power2+Power3…
But first you have to get your values into variables

Thanks for your reply. Yeah I have figured out everything except for isolating those three values with the log reader plugin. The problem is they are all 3 named activePower and therefore I can not figure out how to isolate them with the plugin.
The report is written to smappee.txt on my raspberry pi every second. But that doesn’t help much when I can’t get the numbers out of the report sadly.

I don´t know if the Log Reader can handle Wildcards, maybe @leader21 can help.
Something like "match": "Phase 1:<BR>\tcurrent=WILDCARD A, activePower=()"

Maybe go another way and create a bashscript that parses the logfile via head command and sed and then push the findings via API into pimatic, all in one Script. Then use a shell sensor to call the script every x seconds/minutes.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion. No idea how to do that. So I will just live without the integration.

Thanks for your time all of you. It was fun to see if it was possible and I have already learned new things from this, which I will take with me in the future.

Maybe an other solution: NodeRed Smappee
Seems to be brand new, so i can´t find any examples how to use it and what you can do with it.
Try to ask the developer of it
You have to install Node-Red for it, if you haven´t already…

Thank you Michael. I will give it a try 😁

Update:

So after 7 months of doing many other projects in my home automation system, I returned to this one since it was bothering me. And I finally got it working!!!

If someone else is using smappee I can explain what I did, otherwise, in short words, I got it working using the mqtt script posted earlier in this thread and then I made a dozen rules in Pimatic making the math and rounding off the numbers.

Now I have my watt usage displayed in Pimatic instead of having to use a separate app 😁👍👍
And now able to use integrate it in my rules 😁

@simonbove Would be nice if you can briefly summarize in a “How-To” article how you achieved the integration into pimatic.

EDIT: I am setting this feature to stalled as there have been no upvotes and I assume the request can be implemented using existing features of pimatic