Energy usage

[RonnyRusten]

I am trying to get the energy usage from the thermostat, as we discussed in the HA integration repo.
It's my first attempt at contributing on GH, so I have some questions.

1. Should I open an issue, or should I just make a PR if I ever get something sensible out of this?
2. Is there any naming standards for branches I should follow?

[robbinjanssen]

Hi, thanks for attempting! :-)

I've created an issue, see #105
Don't worry about the branch names. Personally I always do something like robbinjanssen/add-energy.

[RonnyRusten]

Great, I'll probably ask more newbie questions when/if I get as far as to a PR :-)

[RonnyRusten]

I'm having trouble getting info from the EnergyUsage api. All the values are 0, for all ViewTypes. Is this just me, or is it like this for all? I use "yesterday" as the date, I guess today isn't updated until tomorrow at 00:00:00 (or maybe a little after that? My app is showing (some strange) values, I don't know where it get its values from, maybe I need to try to sniff the traffic?

[robbinjanssen]

I've done some quick sniffing in the past, and found out that doing something like this gives results for a year:

data = await self._request(
    "api/EnergyUsage/GetEnergyUsage",
    method=hdrs.METH_POST,
    params={
        "sessionid": self.__session_id,
    },
    body={
        "APIKEY": self.__api_key,
        "History": 0,
        "ThermostatID": thermostat.serial_number,
        "ViewType": 4,
        "History": 0,
        "DateTime": "2022-10-11T15:29:35"
    }
)

[RonnyRusten]

Ok, so you use the serial number instead of the id? That's odd, but I'll test it later today.

[RonnyRusten]

That actually worked, thanks.

[robbinjanssen]

Yes I found that it is using the serial number as ID while sniffing, it is quite confusing indeed 😂

[RonnyRusten]

OK, new newbie question.
I have made some changes to my fork of this repo, and would like to test in HA. (https://github.com/RonnyRusten/python-ojmicroline-thermostat/tree/rr-energy-usage) (Don't laugh! :-))
You said I could modify the manifest of the integration, but, how? I read here (https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/creating_integration_manifest/#custom-requirements-during-development--testing) that I can set it to my repo and branch, but only if version x is not already installed. The question is then, how do I change the version of my library? I guess it will not load my library because it already has your library installed... Do I uninstall your library? (If yes, how?)
As I said, I'm a totally newbie :-)

[robbinjanssen]

I have to say that was quite a bit confusing for me as well.. What I did was update the version with a little bump, for example v1.0.1 and then change the manifest.json in your custom component folder to something like this:

    "requirements": [
        "git+https://github.com/RonnyRusten/python-ojmicroline-thermostat.git@rr-energy-usage#ojmicroline-thermostat==1.0.1"
    ],

Whenever I made another changed I bumped the version to 1.0.2 etc. etc.

If there's a better way please let me know 😂

[RonnyRusten]

If you have done this and it works, it's good enough for me😊