HA MQTT publication not working

[tuffgong31]

Hello,

I was using the psykokwak version to read my water meter.

I just installed yours because I like the improvements you made, including a button to make a manual request.

Unfortunately I had to face 2 problems that I solved.

I hope this can help you and other users

1. private.h library not found => I simply commented out the include line because it seems useless => is this really the case?

2. mqtt receives the data but does not send it to HA
   the error message is as follows:

Error 'extra keys not allowed @ data['device']['support_url']' when processing MQTT discovery message topic

I simply removed the support_url line from each entity and the publication is ok.
I have all the information in HA

Last point. when connected to the arduino serial monitor we see an error message when the meter reading is KO. is it possible to upload this info in HA

Thanks!

[GiacoAV]

Can report the same issue, at least partially...
The ESP connects to the HASS instance and is successfully authenticated and shown as "New client connected" in the logs, but no entities are created...

[tuffgong31]

Can report the same issue, at least partially... The ESP connects to the HASS instance and is successfully authenticated and shown as "New client connected" in the logs, but no entities are created...

Dou you apply my solution?
Remove in Arduino config file the support_url line for each entities before compilation and upload.

[AdrianLThomas]

FYI I fixed this and a bunch of other issues in my PR here (feel free to take my fork as it's awaiting a merge in this repo)

tl;dr the issue was with the format of the JSON schema being incorrect (thus auto discovery failing).

[genestealer]

Thank you for raising this. I believe this now resolved, please download the verify this works with your configuration and setup.

[genestealer]

@AdrianLThomas @GiacoAV @tuffgong31

New release v1.1.6 which now supports network-based serial monitor for remote debugging, and fixes a shed-load of things.

Please note, please use the new private.h template.