Just got my Hubitat & can't get Matter plugs/bulbs to be controllable in dashboard

Hi again: I'm starting to understand Hubitat a bit better now, and I would really like to get my Studer battery percent across from HA, like I have for the kW Grid & Solar via HA. I imagine the problem is with the HA>HE bridge, which you've told me won't work for rainfall & wind... I guess it also doesn't like battery %... strange since it's OK with kW power.. As I said, all these 3 values are in HA but only the power entities have come across to HE- I didn't set up the HA myself, but it appears to use a RESTful transmission with updates programmed in the HA automation. Do you think it's possible to get also the % battery across to HA or is this impossible owing to the limitations of the bridge, please?

HADB support batteries. Normally the battery should appears as a separate device in the app list. I suggest you look for an entity with your device name which have the word battery added at the end.

Hi, I have ticked the 3 target devices in HADB (see screenshot) but only Studer Battery (kW) & Studer Grid GenSet (kW) are showing up as HE devices (power meters) The 'SOC' one. (state of charge, in % in HA) is absent.

Has the charging state changed since you clicked on the SOC? Devices will not show up in HE through the HADB until their state changes. If it is possible change the state of charge, close the devices list, and reopen and see if it appears in your device list.

Yes, the value is changing all the time as it's the charge level of my house power batteries.

It is a sensor. All sensors are supported by HADB. If it is not a specific one it comes through as unknown sensor but the value is there and it is usable.

To see what is going on, please turn on debug logging on the HADB parent device, get your SOC to change value and post or message me the relevant logs.

I'm a bit confused here, sorry: it's good that HADB should support all sensors, but aren't also my Ecowitt weather entities sensors? - these are also 'tickable' in the HADB device list but never show up as devices (rainfall, windspeed, etc), and previously it's stated that 'Ecowitt weather sensors are not supported'. I'm not sure where to find the 'HADB parent device debugging log' - I have taken the main log screenshot (and have activated the debug log in the HADB device menu). It seems that I have a repeating parsing error which I guess is the Battery SOC sensor trying to connect.

You are missing a component of HADB. We should first fix your installation. How did you install HADB? Manually or through HPM?

If the HA Ecowitt integration uses sensors instead of wheather entities then HADB support it. From the log snippet you shown, I can see your Ecowitt gateway is reporting outside temperature and illuminance as sensors. It possibly report other stuff but while your HADB installation is defective, those might fail to show also.

Ah! - this is very interesting: I installed HADB manually following instructions which told me to copy code shown on the web page and paste it to make an 'App' and a 'Driver'. I had no idea what I was doing, I just blindly followed the instructions.

Then you probably missed some. Make sure you installed all 28 components. Especially those related to your Ecowitt data and the unknown sensor component.

This is likely the source of all your problem.

HPM would greately simplify the task of installing and updating custom code. I suggest you use it.

Many thanks for this advice! I will try with HPM. Do I first delete the existing HADB & start again from scratch?

Not sure about that one. Better ask in the HPM topic.

I've deleted my faulty HADB to be sure... but the HPM link takes me a GitHub site and from there I have no idea what to do, there are no obvious instructions :frowning:

HPM instructions:

[RELEASE] Hubitat Package Manager (HPM) -- HubitatCommunity

Thanks - I also just found a video on this subject: I now have the HPM installed and also the HA bridge, but now I'm stuck again... I don't see anywhere to add the IP address of my HA Raspberry Pi and set it all up.
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It's a common misunderstanding of what HPM does.

When Hubitat adds an App to the hub, it's ON the hub. Community created apps are not. You have to add the code to the hub. Once the code is ON the hub, then the process of using that code is the same, Hubitat created or Community Created.

HPM is a tool to add code to the hub. That's it's primary use.

After, you go to Apps (not apps code) and "Add User App"

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The 'Add User App' didn't come up with the set-up menu for the HA IP address & Token on my Mac, but it has done on my iPad. The result seems to be rather a mess (see the screenshot) - slowly the devices are repopulating as their values/state change, but I still don't see the important ones (%battery SOC and solar lux) and I've ended up with the same devices as I had previously using the manual configuration - but this time I have more log errors.

It is. You have 3 instances of HADB. Remove them then go to "Add user app" as @csteele pointed at to add only one copy off HADB.

Edit: You have to remove any HADB parent device if there are one left before adding the app.

I'm totally lost... time to give up I think, but thanks for your help & patience.