I am working on an integration for Elro Connects. The integration should allow users with Elro Connects fire, water or CO alarms to integrate those in Home Assistant. If you own Elro Connects fire alarms and like to test, you could add the elro connects integration with HACS. Add the following repo to HACS https://github.com/jbouwh/ha-elro-connects/. …
Author Archives: Jan Bouwhuis
InfluxDB 2 support
Omnikdatalogger v1.11.1 now has native support for InfluxDB v2 authentication. It is no longer needed to supply v1 authentication support. To enable it you need to configure the config parameters org, bucket, and token. If you use HACS via AppDaemon, make sure you add influxdb-client to the python packages. Additional you now can use an …
CSV output
The last release of Omnikdatalogger supports logging to a CSV file. Additional the local time, date and temperature (Openweathermap) can be logged. CSV logging can be configured per inverter or aggregated. To already try the new feature download the new release.
Omnikdatalogger now supports new http method
Omnikatalogger’s tcpclient suports direct connection over port 8899 to fetch the data using Wouter van der Zwan’s library. Not all inverters support this way of connecting. Some inverters support collecting the inverter data over HTTP. With the new release the tcpclient will fallback to this http method when it fails to fetch the data over …
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MQTT TLS support – new Solarman API
The last release of Omnikdatalogger will have MQTT TLS support and implements the new Solarman API. MQTT TLS support The MQTT output client and mqtt_proxy plugin for the localproxy client now can use TLS. The use of client certificates and the use of an alternative ca is supported now. Example of the new settings: output.mqtt: …
`solarmanpv` client discontinued – new API
Omnikdataloggers solarmanpv client does not longer seem to work. Users have received mails indication the service is to be discontinued. The portal functionality has been moved to https://home.solarmanpv.com/. I was successful in enabling the new UI by requesting a new password where I used the same email address I used before. While writing this my …
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New gas monitoring feature
The latest version of Omnik Data Logger now supports the monitoring of gas consumption (using MQTT). Update your Home Assistant 2021.9.x before you update Omnik Data Logger, for else MQTT will not work with Home Assistant. The unit of measurement for gas consumption has changed from m3 to m³ to be compliant with Home Assistant. …
More energy coming soon: Gas!
With the latest beta release of Home Assistant 2021.9 the monitoring of gas consumption will come available. The current version of Omnikdatalogger (1.6.x) does nog support this feature yet, but you can test it already with the latest beta version. Be aware that this beta changes the unit off measurement of the gas entity. This …
Energy!
Enjoy your Omnik solar production at the Home Assistants new Enery dashboard with the latest version of Omnik Data Logger. An update was needed to make the MQTT energy sensors compliant with the new Energy feature. The Energy feature was released with the latest version of Home Assistant. As you can see I just started …
Site fully translated to Dutch
Most parts of this site including the new Ducth Only Omnik data logger Wiki have been translated to Dutch. I am interested to hear what you think.