Plugin locks up rainmeter while getting data

[YannickGTHD]

My plan was to see my solar panels energy production on my desktop, this is my config:

[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#PLUGINSPATH#\HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll
authKey=XXX
server=http://192.168.1.27
port=8123
ssl=false


entityId=sensor.solix_wechselrichter_ac_leistung
isInt=true


[SolarPower]
Meter=Stringe
MeasureName=hassio
X=300
Y=70
FontSize=30
FontColor=#FFFFFF
AntiAlias=1
StringAlign=Right
Text=Solarpanel: %1 W

What I get is "NAN" as output and Rainmeter is not responding to inputs anymore. I have to kill it in taskmanager.
The Log file just says "multiple errors occurred".

Any ideas?

The anker solix sensor is integrated via the HACS-Plugin store. Could there be a problem?

In dev options I tried {{ states('sensor.solix_wechselrichter_ac_leistung')}} and it outputs 122 as a number, so the isInt=true should also be correct.

[felixx2108]

+1
Tried about every combination of settings.
I only get "nan" returned with "At least one error occured" getting spammed in the logs.
At least my rainmeter doesn't crash.

[cperryoh]

My plan was to see my solar panels energy production on my desktop, this is my config:

[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#PLUGINSPATH#\HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll
authKey=XXX
server=http://192.168.1.27
port=8123
ssl=false


entityId=sensor.solix_wechselrichter_ac_leistung
isInt=true


[SolarPower]
Meter=Stringe
MeasureName=hassio
X=300
Y=70
FontSize=30
FontColor=#FFFFFF
AntiAlias=1
StringAlign=Right
Text=Solarpanel: %1 W

What I get is "NAN" as output and Rainmeter is not responding to inputs anymore. I have to kill it in taskmanager.
The Log file just says "multiple errors occurred".

Any ideas?

The anker solix sensor is integrated via the HACS-Plugin store. Could there be a problem?

In dev options I tried {{ states('sensor.solix_wechselrichter_ac_leistung')}} and it outputs 122 as a number, so the isInt=true should also be correct.

For your issue, I would try to just have the IP of your server

[cperryoh]

+1
Tried about every combination of settings.
I only get "nan" returned with "At least one error occured" getting spammed in the logs.
At least my rainmeter doesn't crash.

Can you drop your config

[felixx2108]

Absolute minimal version to test.

[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll
authKey=<redacted>
server=192.168.178.61
port=30103
ssl=true
entityId=light.smart_relay_1_switch
isInt=true

[example]
Meter=String
MeasureName=hassio
X=400
Y=70
FontSize=30
StringAlign=Center
Text="Test: %1"

The dll gets loaded without error.
I tried every combination of

• IP / hostname
• ssl true / false
• isInt true / false
• different entityIds

The only return is "nan"

[cperryoh]

@felixx2108 The main thing that sticks out to me is that the path is suspect. iirc i personally did #SETTINGSPATH#\HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll and settings path described here as being at C:\Users\YourName\Appdata\Roaming\Rainmeter\. There may be some default location that allows you not to have to specify the whole path, just the filename. If that is not doing it, I would turn on debugging/logging mode and drop the logs that you get upon starting the skin in here.

[cperryoh]

@felixx2108

[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
AccurateText=1

[Metadata]
Name=
Author=
Information=
Version=
License=Creative Commons Attribution - Non - Commercial - Share Alike 3.0

[Variables]

#note this is for an ssl configuration
[hassio]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=#PLUGINSPATH#\HomeAssitantPlugin.dll
authKey=<api-key>
server=<server>
ssl=true
port=443
entityId=sensor.<some-sensor>
isInt=false
[example]
Meter=String
MeasureName=hassio
X=400
Y=70
FontSize=30
StringAlign=Center
Text=Entity: %1

Just gave this config a test with my own server and it seems to work fine.

[felixx2108]

@cperryoh

This is the log in debug mode:

NOTE (09:12:08.754) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini: Refreshing skin
DBUG (09:12:08.754) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini: Reading file: C:\Programme Portable\Rainmeter\Skins\HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini
DBUG (09:12:08.763) : Reading file: C:\Programme Portable\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.ini
DBUG (09:12:08.770) : Plugin loaded: C:\Programme Portable\Rainmeter\Plugins\HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll
ERRO (09:12:08.784) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:09.794) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:10.791) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:11.803) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:12.791) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:13.795) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:14.791) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:15.868) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
ERRO (09:12:16.803) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini - [hassio]: Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.
NOTE (09:12:16.873) HomeAssistant\HomeAssistant.ini: Deactivating skin
DBUG (09:12:17.202) : Plugin unloaded: C:\Programme Portable\Rainmeter\Plugins\HomeAssitantPlugin-x64.dll

There may be some default location that allows you not to have to specify the whole path

Yes, the plugin folder where the rainmeter executable sits needs no path.

Just gave this config a test with my own server and it seems to work fine.

I tried it but it makes no difference.

Sadly the error message is very nondescript, making it hard to narrow down the exact issue.

[cperryoh]

@felixx2108 It is 3am where I am at lol, but when I have some time later today, I will make you a special debugging build that dumps everything it can to the logs.

[felixx2108]

@cperryoh
Much appreciated, but no need to stress too much about it. I just randomly found this repository and wanted to try some things.

No hard feelings if I can't get it to work on my setup :)

[felixx2108]

I was trying out some more things to find some clues. While testing whether the api works correctly via curl, I found a possible issue with my specific setup.

My HomeAssistant runs in a docker container on my home herver. The server is not open to the internet, so I'm just using a self-signed certificate for https.

Curl has some issues with that. It only returns data with the --insecure option, to ignore the untrusted certificate.
And since the docker container is set up with https the api does not respond to http requests.

So maybe adding a third ssl option (e.g. ssl=insecure) could be a solution.

I'll not try to make the fix myself, that goes beyond my abilities, but a quick google search leads to:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.httpclienthandler.dangerousacceptanyservercertificatevalidator?view=net-6.0