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I'm a bit confused. After I install the prerequisites, how do I install the script? I'm looking to buy the RPI power monitor and it directs you to here to implement MQTT for home assistant use but I don't get how to install this

Hey mate,

Thank you very much for your work with this script.

Just a few suggestions for improvements to help a novice like me get it working. Firstly maybe just a note in the readme to first install/check installed the two packages required:

• apt-get install influxdb-client
• apt-get install mosquitto-clients

Secondly, I have a username and password set for my mosquitto broker, so had to add a -u "username" and -P "password" variable. Would it be possible to declare the variables at the start of the script like you do with the "server" and "prefix"?

Cheers
Jake

I dont know how to do pull requests, so I am putting it here instead.

the code on line 12 needs to be changed from
for ct in $(seq 0 5)

to
for ct in $(seq 1 6)

with release https://github.com/David00/rpi-power-monitor/releases/tag/v0.2.0 the channel numbers were changed from 0-5 to 1-6.

When querying the Influx every second using the Last Power metrics will ends up with discrepancies between Grafana and Home Assistant.

To test it, I've run this mqtt for a while then Process them into Home Assistant.
If a compare yesterday using the Last Power Metric, we got 44.66kWh on HomePower Dashboard vs 44.56kWh on HomeAssistant.

Question, where you successful to configure it to show up into Home Assistant Electricity Grid consumption?

That would be nice to have.