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thermostat_mode doesn’t seem to be a valid capability

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I did I by creating from a new device and added capability thermostat.
And also a lot of others like current, power, energy, text etc. After creating a new device. I could use the advanced topics to setup all my mqtt topics and used the example from post 116 to create a custom picker. Made me sweat whole day but it’s working so far.

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So it’s working now?
The issue is this part:

  “capability”: “enum”,

You have to select a valid capability that offers the needed events.

“thermostat_mode”: {
  “capability”: “thermostat_mode”,
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Yes working great. Thanks!

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I have a problem getting values updated. I connected a water meter to MQTT and i can see that it regulary reports values. When i create a new device, based on MQTT Hub it seems to work.. .but it never gets any update. At the moment i add a 2nd device for the exact same topic the new device gets the current value and the old stuck one gets updated too.

Thats a test… before updateing the left one showed 0.021 although there was other values reported to MQTT in between.

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I was always watching MQTT with MQTT Explorer:

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So im 100% sure, that there was updates which did not hit the device in Homey…

The devices are configured as sensor with this topic:

{
  "meter_water": {
    "capability": "meter_water",
    "stateTopic": "shellyplusuni-wasser-wm/watermeter/m3",
    "template": "{{ value | float }}",
    "displayName": "Water meter"
  }
}

What could be the reason, that these devices are working for a short time and then stop updateing the values from MQTT Server?

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Can you check if MqttClient app is restarted in between?
In this case, the topic registration gets lost.

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New test version 4.5.0:

  • adapted device settings for HomeyEnergy to new SDK options
  • possibility to add energy settings for home battery, ev charger and electric car.

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For home battery:

  • set device option to “home battery”
  • add measure_power (positive/negative value dependent on charge/discharge).
  • add meter_power.charged and meter_power.discharged (you can use other names)
  • insert these capabilities in device settings into corresponding fields

For ev charger:

  • use measure_power and meter_power capability and set device option to “EV charger”.
  • If you are using V2G (vehicle top grid), you can set the meter power imported/exported capability

For electric car:

  • set device option to “electric car”
  • add measure_battery and ev_charging_state capability
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Im trying to add a device with multiple utilization and one temperature topic.

The device is sensor… i was a bit playing and came to that config:

{
  "measure_temperature": {
    "capability": "measure_temperature",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/temp",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "CPU Temperature"
  },
  "measure_humidity": {
    "capability": "measure_humidity",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/cpu",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "CPU Usage (%)"
  },
  "measure_luminance": {
    "capability": "measure_luminance",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/ram",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "RAM Usage (%)"
  },
  "measure_pressure": {
    "capability": "measure_pressure",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/disk",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "Disk Usage (%)"
  }
}

i had to use different types, because it seems only to accept one topic per type…

The result shows the correct values, but very strange:

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Is there a way to show multiple utilization percentages with correct unit and a more generic icon?

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You are using different standard capabilities. Using subcapabilities you can add a capability sevreal times.
And the app offers 2 custom capabilities: measure_number and measure_string for generic values.

Example:

{
  "measure_temperature": {
    "capability": "measure_temperature",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/temp",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "CPU Temperature"
  },
  "measure_number.cpu": {
    "capability": "measure_number.cpu",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/cpu",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "CPU Usage (%)",
    "unit": "%"
  },
  "measure_number.ram": {
    "capability": "measure_number.ram",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/ram",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "RAM Usage (%)",
    "unit": "%"
  },
  "measure_number.disk": {
    "capability": "measure_number.disk",
    "stateTopic": "home/system/disk",
    "valueTemplate": "{{value}}",
    "displayName": "Disk Usage (%)",
    "unit": "%"
  }
}

The units should work, too (not tested). But the icons are predefined for the capability and not changeable.
I hope the example is working for you :slight_smile:

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