Integrate the Wi-Fi energy meter into Home Assistant with MQTT(with username and password)

Integrate the Wi-Fi energy meter into Home Assistant with MQTT(with username and password)

Premise

The IAMMETER products (both 3 phase energy meter WEM3080T and single-phase energy meter WEM3080) have just supported Set the username and password in MQTT communication.

Besides using the IAMMETER@Home Assistant integration and modbus/tcp sensor in Home Assistant, you have the third option now, by MQTT.

IAMMETER`s product can be integrated into Home assistant by four ways now(core integration, Modbus/TCP, MQTT and HACS).

For more details ,please refer to https://www.iammeter.com/docs/summary-home-assistant

This tutorial is about how to integrate the IAMMETER`s Wi-Fi energy meter into the Home assistant by MQTT (with username and password).

Video tutorial :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8VYQqTReIo

Welcome to discuss this topic here Set the usr/pwd of MQTT in the Wi-Fi energy meter

How to do it

Set the MQTT parameters (username and password) in the Wi-Fi Energy meter of IAMMETER

Set the username and password of your MQTT broker into Wi-Fi energy meter.

Please refer to:

Publish the data of energy monitor to your MQTT server (iammeter.com)

Device configuration, add your mqtt broker ip

Configure the Yaml file in Home Assistant

1. Open home assistant mqtt config: mqtt sensor: mqtt_iammeter.yaml

2. check configuration & restart

Reference

Summary: How to use IAMMETER`s energy meter in Home assistant

IAMMETER energy meter support Modbus TCP

Request the power value of the Wi-Fi energy meter (IAMMETER) from the modbus tcp sensor(Home assistant) in 1s/s (sample/second) and use this reading as the feedback value to control the SONOFF relay operate in real-time

Use the 3 phase energy meter the way you prefer