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[CFenner]

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[c-m0s]

Hi @CFenner
thanks a lot for you Smappee Module, I'd love to add it to my mirror.

Unfortunately, SMAPPEE replied to me with this message:

Our API has become a paying feature I will forward you for this matter to my sales colleague.
https://support.smappee.com/hc/en-us/articles/202153935-Where-can-I-find-the-API-documentation-

and further more:

For the usage of our API, we ask for a small recurring fee of € 2,50 per month for Smappee Energy/Solar, to be paid
upfront for 24 months (so € 60 for 2 years). In case of a Smappee Plus, the fee is €3 per month, so €72 for 2 years.
After reception of the payment, our support team activates the API account.

I personally find that's too much for this single MagicMirror-Module use. And I don't have other applications in mind right now to make use of the API.

SMAPPEE also writes

We also offer free alternatives, like :

• MQTT, for which I've added the topics in attachment.
• Node Red, for which I've added the link to the Smappee nodes :
  https://flows.nodered.org/node/@smappee/node-red-contrib-smappee

Do you know these solutions? Would it be easily possible to modify your module to use these interfaces?

[CFenner]

Hi @cmose,

Great that you would like to use the module!
I’ve dismantled my mirror, so I didn’t notice the API change. Sad to hear about that and the price.

So I know MQTT but I fear that in that case you need to take case about the data persistence yourself. I could imagine the following setup:

1. Mqtt Server collecting the measurements
2. Influx dB with mqtt Interface to store the data points
3. Custom API endpoint serving the same data as the Smappee api.

This would only require a change of the endpoint in the module but requires some serious coding effort.