Meaning of "debugskip" in device log

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Aeon home energy meter, built in driver.
In the logs I would like to know what the "skip" means. I know what skip means when a driver if statement doesn't select a command. But these usually are crossed out with a line.

Sorry for the text copy but my computer is ill and out for RMA. I'm using a very old computer with limitation.

dev:40332025-08-06 23:38:34.523debugskip: MeterReport(scale: 0, rateType: 1, scale2: 0, deltaTime: 300, previousMeterValue: [0, 0, 0, 159], meterType: 1, precision: 3, size: 4, meterValue: [0, 0, 0, 204])
dev:40332025-08-06 23:38:34.355debugskip: MeterReport(scale: 2, rateType: 1, scale2: 0, deltaTime: 0, previousMeterValue: [0, 0, 0, 0], meterType: 1, precision: 3, size: 4, meterValue: [0, 8, 23, 24])
dev:40332025-08-06 23:38:34.355

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skip: MeterReport(scale: 2, rateType: 1, scale2: 0, deltaTime: 0, previousMeterValue: [0, 0, 0, 0], meterType: 1, precision: 3, size: 4, meterValue: [0, 8, 23, 24])

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It just means this is a report the device is sending in that the driver is choosing not to parse into an event. Normally this is because the information might be redundant (handled via some other report), not useful, or a capability more advanced than the driver chooses to support. Sometimes it's just because you're dealing with a generic driver or different hardware or firmware versions of a specific driver, and that driver was just not "tuned" well for that particular variant.

As an end user, these are generally not useful; as a developer or someone working with the developer, they can be for seeing things like the above. If you have a specific event you're missing that you think should have parsed out of this data, sharing more about that can help.

What is the name of this driver? The one I'm looking at ("Aeon Home Energy Meter") would parse the above log entries into power reports (Watts) -- and it doesn't log "skip" entries at all, so it can't be this one.

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I erroneously asked about driver "Basic ZWave Tool" which I was using to set the parameters for the "Aeon Home Energy Meter" I had gone back and forth between the tool and the Aeon driver and was copying the logs and forgot I had the "Basic Zwave tool" installed when I was looking at the "Skip"
However its good to know

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That makes sense! The Basic Z-Wave Tool is going to skip about everything (except certain things it might care about, like ConfigurationReports it will log).