Charging session information

[geertmeersman]

Hi,

I don't see anything in the smappee API regarding the session information.
Do you know if they have a possibility to get this information? Would be interesting to see how much kW has been charged during the actual session and how long it is already active

[geertmeersman]

Will create a PR

[myny-git]

I have quickly checked the Mqtt, but as I was not charging, no information was found.

[geertmeersman]

Already made a proposal in my fork, will make a PR somewhere next week, will try to get most out of it first.

Btw is there any reason why you push double devices? There are 3 devices, CHARGINGSTATION, CARCHARGER and LED
But in fact the CAR CHARGER is the parent device and the CHARGINGSTATION and LED are the children.
This results for me in 2 identical devices in HA now (and thus 4 API calls per type, e.g. getting the LED status, 4 calls.
I know the API is limited to 20 calls per hour (theoretically), so this should perhaps be limited?

I started developing exactly what you have made here 👍 Nice work!
Another question: any reason why you don't use the mqtt client from HA?

[myny-git]

Nice! Let's evaluate this indeed.

A few questions though:
I know the API is limited to 20 calls per hour (theoretically), so this should perhaps be limited?
Where did you get this information? As I am sure sometimes I go over this ;-)

Btw is there any reason why you push double devices? There are 3 devices, CHARGINGSTATION, CARCHARGER and LED
But in fact the CAR CHARGER is the parent device and the CHARGINGSTATION and LED are the children.
This results for me in 2 identical devices in HA now (and thus 4 API calls per type, e.g. getting the LED status, 4 calls.

Ok, you are right. Not sure how many devices you have, but something must be wrong with the mapping then. We could figure it out. I know there are users of this integration with multiple sites, mutlitple devices, and it seems to work.

Finally, I am not using the charging session, I am feeding the connector energy to Home Assistant, and there I can extract the energy of this session.

[myny-git]

I had a bit of time this weekend and did some (minor) code improvements and bug removals. I am pushing beta releases, because I want to limit too many releases for users in a short period. Beta releases are anyway optional and I can test the configuration as such. Looking forward to your proposal.

[geertmeersman]

ok, will sync my branch to see what happened 👍