Oil Pal

xtreme rebel wrote: »

Does anyone have the instruction on how to pair the receiver for OilPal with the little box inside the house?

My reading on the app has been frozen for a few weeks now.

Looks like Oil Pal no longer works.

Email mentioned some licensing issues on whatever the app was running on

Bit disappointing as it had been working very well for me for years and had no fees.

What are people doing who used oil pal doing? is there a way around this that I could send the data to local webserver?

OR is there other subscription free monitors people recommend ?

This looks interesting.... keep us posted with how you get on!

Also seems to be an active Home Assistant integration.

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/does-anyone-know-a-way-to-get-kingspan-watchman-sensit-oil-tank-sensor-working-with-ha/411111/12

Thanks for that, yes I can see the diag page. I don't currently use HA. But this gives me a place to start trying out a few things without buying another sensor.

Cheers for that!

Have you the ip address of your sensor in that config?

Or are you just masking it for the forums sake? There is no need to as it is an internal private address.

I presume you know you need to reload after updating a YAML config?

It should be fine in one YAML file.

Have you any errors showing up in the system logs?

To me it looks like you probably have some indentation issues, but surprised they are not being reported by HA.

It could just be Boards messing up the format though. There is a code block option that is better for sharing code.

scrape:

  - resource: http://192.168.178.xx/diag.htm

   scan_interval: 60 # this is not correct indentation




sensor:

 - name: OilPalData

   platform: scrape

    resource: http://192.168.178.xx/diag.htm # this is not correct indentation

   select: 'table:nth-of-type(2) td:nth-of-type(5)'

   unit_of_measurement: 'Litres'

   value_template: >-

     {% if value is defined %}

       {% set modem_values = value.split(' ') %}

       {% set tank_temp = modem_values[1] %}

       {% if tank_temp != "Data" %}

         {% set tank_depth = modem_values[0] | int %}

         {% set tank_dimensions = {

           "height": 106,

           "width": 67,

           "length": 175,

         } %}

         {% set tank_volume = {

           "value": (tank_dimensions.height - tank_depth) * tank_dimensions.length * tank_dimensions.width / 1000,

         } %}

         {{ tank_volume.value | round(0) }}

       {% else %}

         {% if states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') == "" %}

           Waiting for first reading

         {% else %}

           {{ states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') }}

         {% endif %}

       {% endif %}

     {% else %}

       No value available

     {% endif %}

resource and scan interval are between valid indents

You may be better off contacting the Poster from the other thread and ask him to send in a text file.

Edit: maybe worth a look too

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/oilpal-watchman-ultrasonic-oil-tank-level-reading-for-home-assistant/113134

On the indentation, the two lines marked out of indentation above are out by one space and are failing for me. One space in either direction would make it pass the test for indentation test but would have very different results. So you can have valid indentation but still not be right indentation for your use case.

But like I said that could be just boards reformatting it after you pasted the code. Also likely to have happened with the original poster as they also did not use the code formatting option.

It should look more like this.

Everytime a statement is a child of another statement it should step in 2 spaces.

e.g.everytime there is an if statement it should step in 2 spaces.

scrape:
  - resource: http://192.168.178.60/diag.htm
    scan_interval: 60


sensor:
  - name: OilPalData
    platform: scrape
    resource: http://192.168.178.xx/diag.htm # this is not correct indentation
    select: 'table:nth-of-type(2) td:nth-of-type(5)'
    unit_of_measurement: 'Litres'
    value_template: >-
      {% if value is defined %}
        {% set modem_values = value.split(' ') %}
        {% set tank_temp = modem_values[1] %}
        {% if tank_temp != "Data" %}
          {% set tank_depth = modem_values[0] | int %}
          {% set tank_dimensions = {
            "height": 106,
            "width": 67,
            "length": 175,
          } %}
          {% set tank_volume = {
            "value": (tank_dimensions.height - tank_depth) * tank_dimensions.length * tank_dimensions.width / 1000,
          } %}
          {{ tank_volume.value | round(0) }}
        {% else %}
          {% if states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') == "" %}
            Waiting for first reading
          {% else %}
            {{ states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') }}
          {% endif %}
        {% endif %}
      {% else %}
        No value available
      {% endif %}

Can't say the above is completely right, I just went through it by eye but I'd say it's closer.

This is what mine looks like. The file editor in HA shows some detail on the indents which helps

I've updated to match tipp's but still seems to be the same issue

Error while setting up scrape platform for sensorTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 360, in _async_setup_platform
    await asyncio.shield(task)
  File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/scrape/sensor.py", line 60, in async_setup_platform
    coordinator: ScrapeCoordinator = discovery_info["coordinator"]
                                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

scrape:
  - resource: http://192.168.178.60/diag.htm
    sensor:
      - name: OilPalData
        select: 'table:nth-of-type(2) td:nth-of-type(5)'
        unit_of_measurement: 'Litres'
        value_template: >-
          {% if value is defined %}
            {% set modem_values = value.split(' ') %}
            {% set tank_temp = modem_values[1] %}
            {% if tank_temp != "Data" %}
              {% set tank_depth = modem_values[0] | int %}
              {% set tank_dimensions = {
                "height": 106,
                "width": 67,
                "length": 175,
             } %}
            {% set tank_volume = {
              "value": (tank_dimensions.height - tank_depth) * tank_dimensions.length * tank_dimensions.width / 1000,
            } %}
            {{ tank_volume.value | round(0) }}
          {% else %}
            {% if states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') == "" %}
              Waiting for first reading
               {% else %}
                 {{ states('sensor.oilpaldata.state') }}
               {% endif %}
            {% endif %}
            {% else %}
              No value available
            {% endif %}
    scan_interval: 60

Depending how you set up your HA, you may need to install libxml2. See:

I've tried his exact config also and get the same error.

Not sure what node-red is, this is my first time trying to use HA