Enhacement: Internal temperature Home Assistant discovery

[f-vicente]

Describe the bug
An enhacement related with #1125

Will be great a flag that enables the internal temperature to be published, and generates the appropriate HASS discovery.

At this moment you need to create the timmer to publish the variable value (like shown on #1125), then create the appropriate sensor manually in home assistant. Will be great if this could be automated.

Firmware:

• Version 1.17.553
• Chip/model: BK7231N

[openshwprojects]

Sure, it's planned and I can add it for you, but first, are you aware that this internal temperature is not a perfect measurement and should not be really relied upon? As far as I know it' even has serious issue on one of the platforms. The fix is still pending.

[f-vicente]

Great!

Yes I know that the sensor is very inaccurate, but I like to have statistics about it, and use the values to trigger alarms if they get very high values that could reflect any problem. I only have bk7231n devices and those seem to work reasonably fine.

[f-vicente]

Thanks for adding it.

[pablacho]

Hi! I am on the latest version of OpenBK7231T. I have re-discovered all my devices to add the new sensors, but they only update on restart! should I add repeating events for each sensor? what are their variable names? I am asuming $intTemp should go to topic 'temp', (so running "addRepeatingEvent 300 -1 publishFloat temp $intTemp" should do the trick), but what are the others?

[f-vicente]

Hi! I am on the latest version of OpenBK7231T. I have re-discovered all my devices to add the new sensors, but they only update on restart! should I add repeating events for each sensor? what are their variable names? I am asuming $intTemp should go to topic 'temp', (so running "addRepeatingEvent 300 -1 publishFloat temp $intTemp" should do the trick), but what are the others?

I haven’t done anything in special, just update and the new sensors appeared.

[pablacho]

Hi! I am on the latest version of OpenBK7231T. I have re-discovered all my devices to add the new sensors, but they only update on restart! should I add repeating events for each sensor? what are their variable names? I am asuming $intTemp should go to topic 'temp', (so running "addRepeatingEvent 300 -1 publishFloat temp $intTemp" should do the trick), but what are the others?

I haven’t done anything in special, just update and the new sensors appeared.

do they update every now and then? Mine stay the same (14mins and counting), I am checking the MQTT log but no messages arrive. I have also tried running the command I suggested but the info goes to <dev_topic>/temp/get instead of <dev_topic>/temp so HA ignores it...

[f-vicente]

Hi! I am on the latest version of OpenBK7231T. I have re-discovered all my devices to add the new sensors, but they only update on restart! should I add repeating events for each sensor? what are their variable names? I am asuming $intTemp should go to topic 'temp', (so running "addRepeatingEvent 300 -1 publishFloat temp $intTemp" should do the trick), but what are the others?

I haven’t done anything in special, just update and the new sensors appeared.

do they update every now and then? Mine stay the same (14mins and counting), I am checking the MQTT log but no messages arrive. I have also tried running the command I suggested but the info goes to <dev_topic>/temp/get instead of <dev_topic>/temp so HA ignores it...

Yes, the update as expected.

I have experienced the issue on one of them, it didn’t show anything, but it was fixed when I disconnected from power and connected again. I have a few devices that always give me those kind of errors after the update.

[Phobos-7]

So this is super cool:

But, it's getting updated only once - on startup :(
Is there a way to make it regular, every 15 seconds for example?

[Phobos-7]

Oh, my bad. It can be set here:

Config - Configure General/Flags
Flag 2 - [MQTT] Broadcast self state every N (def: 60) seconds (delay configurable by 'mqtt_broadcastInterval' and 'mqtt_broadcastItemsPerSec' commands)