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Took a crash course in getting HA running via VM & the ewelink access loaded on that only to get Looks like if the device name doesn't start with Sonoff forget it as far as ewelink goes. Anyway tripped over Shelly prior to that attempt , that looks like it will do what I want & leave a K in my pocket versus the iammeter option.

The Home assistant thing to get that running is what a "Green" or a dedicated PC/VM/NUC/PI sort of thing that gets me back in the same price tag tho ya? I'm neanderthal in regard HA

Yeah the devil seems to be in the details, a lot of options to see one used "x" kwh for the day, trouble I'm finding is getting to see what happened in that 24H. Thinking I'm going to have to bite on the iammeter option, Emporia is perhaps also an option with their earlier gen2,seems they switched to 2x single core rather than double core wired CT's for an accuracy related issue with that gen2/gen3 tho. What I'm wanting to see (iammeter)

The geyser i have is an older 150L E rated one & I want to see what that puppy is sucking as to whether I bite the bullet & replace it with a 100L B. Eskom is making that decision a better idea & unfortunately no solar possible. I'm thumb sucking standing loss maybe getting close to 2k year.

Yes but i guess cloud charting is the part I'm mostly looking for, at least to start with anyway but that one is maybe on ewelinks supported webview list, the one I brought is not.

That's a world i haven't stepped into but would the plan be something like an ewelink/tuya/sonoff metering wifi switch and get a "home assistant green" to read that & it offers some sort of decent daily graphing feature? I did buy one of these but the daily info to learn anything is not there https://www.geewiz.co.za/smart-plugs-switches/215590-ewelink-wifi-smart-circuit-breaker-type-timer-63a-with-power-kwh-monitoring-ewelink-smart-app-geyser-timer.html

Any suggestions on something that can give a reasonable daily chart/graph of geyser kwh usage? Efergy looked like they have with their "engage" but they seem to be dropping off here for anything available & overseas stock also looks like their about to close their doors. Ewelink + Tuya - I really thought there would be something better but doesn't appear so unless I'm not looking in the right place. IamMeter - seems expensive @3k for a single CT Feeding to Victron VRM looks like also a $ story & maybe a chart but no totals either. Any other suggestions to look at? Edit: Deeper look at the iammeter got me a bit keener on that one seen as the cloud service is not extra & shows what I'm looking for.

I think that's almost a certain 🤣, solution might be jamming some prozac in that port

This is a weird problem Today i monkeyed around some more & decided to try match the PC Date/time format to what the connection time out error messages were saying. That worked out to be set the PC Time zone +8H China & 24h time format - Regions were already on US. Then using the Update tool ( the failed firmware tool) left everything blank & unchecked & hit connect. Viola it linked. Closed update tool, checked with BV, working there also , unplugged & went back to the 2nd battery & updated its firmware. Then back to the problem connection batt, connected again with BV & firmware update worked. Thinking i'd cracked the problem & while the batts were offline returned my linkport leads back to the original way where the problem one was Master. But after doing that no more talkies again with the problem 1, other 2 still fine. Maybe I just got lucky but seems pretty odd. Anyway now have all 3 batts on v3.4

Looks like a good place for me to stay out of 🤪 Jobs done on the master - copying the history & event data after the upgrade is painful slow now tho vrs when I did it earlier. Not sure I even need it but that SOP says to so following orders. Thanks a bunch for your help Youda

Where is that hidden? I don't see it & haven't been brave enough to touch "log-in" - is it in there? Ok thank you , I'll do that - update the master & wait for China's holidays to finish & see what they have to say

Youda my purpose of this is driven by wanting to get the extra bms cell info to the Victron happening, which needs to be more up to date firmware. At present they are all on v1.3 Whats your thoughts if I just update the new master as I believe I've read that then will allow those comms to happen. OR is it better left alone all running the same firmware versus running 1 or 2 batts on new FW & one on very old - very old would be the last batt in the current config. You have any thoughts?

Seems clean enough The one not working top & a working one below

No, it just made it possible to read from the battery that I couldn't connect from directly by doing it via using the parallel checkbox on the BV software. I'm still stuck in so far as I can't connect to that battery by itself as the console port seems to be a problem. Need to do some digging to see if its safe enough to try firmware update via the same way. China being in their new year are out of the picture for a couple of weeks.

Batt 1-2-3 What was module 1-2-3 from top to bottom , when switching the linkports so the no3 or bottom battery is Master that becomes the new module 1, 2 stays the same & 3 is then the top one.