Master

[zepiaf]

Major refactoring :

• winter_credit is now a module
• hydro_api only handle hydro quebec API calls and auth
• mqtt now publish the entire objects for both next event and state

Data format is now more versatile:

• pre_start is now pre_heat and has configurable offset
• reference periods are configurable and are calculated for the current day
• all datetime fields have equivalent _ts that correspond to unix epoch (timestamp)

Configuration is now in yaml

Documentation has been updated

[mdallaire]

For the mqtt topic, I think that having a default base topic of "hydroqc" would be a good idea.
hydroqc/winterpeak/#

This would let us add more subtopic later on for other info fetched from the API. You may also want to add the contractid somewhere in there to accommodate future users with more than one contract.

hydroqc/123456/winterpeak/
hydroqc/123456/otherstats
hydroqc/789123/winterpeak
hydroqc/789123/otherstats

And the cherry on top would be to have a default of hydroqc for the topic but have it configurable in the config.yaml file. I think this structure would also help with an eventual integration of hass mqtt discovery further down the road.

[zepiaf]

basetopic and contract added