Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It seems very difficult to obtain the authorisation key.

Describe the solution you'd like Please provide a solution on how to obtain this authorisation key simply

After reverse engineering the Powerpal BLE comms I didn't think to bother with any of the REST API because that had been covered pretty well by a couple of other github projects.

But on coming back to it I realised that there was one step that is still a bit of a pain and mystery, retrieving the apikey! (though I believe now you can maybe apply for it, this is probably still more convenient)

The Apikey is actually stored locally on the Powerpal, behind the 'UUID' (59DA0009-12F4-25A6-7D4F-55961DCE4205) characteristic.

This is a super simple python script to retrieve it, and only requires the Powerpal MAC address (can easily be found by scanning for bluetooth devices), and the pairing code given to you with your Powerpal (can also be found within the Powerpal Application)

I don't currently have access to a Powerpal to test this on, so would really appreciate if you could give it a go and let me know if it works (it's also possible the data that comes back might need to have it's bytes reversed)

Can run by adding your mac and pairing key as arguments, or by changing them in the script: python3 utils/retrieve_api_key.py "12:34:56:78:90:AB" 123123

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f7e8b30

Describe the bug

The Total Consumption chart seems to be calculated based on the time of syncing the data, not the actual time of usage. This shows it fairly clearly:

Compare with actual usage per hour from Powerpal app:

Is this a bug or a limitation of the API?

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The link has a typo in it, missing final "p" in powerpal

https://github.com/mindmelting/hass-poweral

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Hi There,

Thanks so much for this integration.

Is there a way to load pervious data to HA, prior to having installed the component?

Obviously I can download the CSV file, but how do Add it to the newly recorded data in HA?

Thanks in advance

Hi,

Firstly thanks for creating this integration, I have been able to get it working within my setup which is great. I am however wanting some advice on how often it communications with 'readings' as it doesn't seem to be 'live' and the total power consumption is out by nearly 1kWh (compared with the app)

Is there anything I am missed or need to adjust? or is this expected as it's not providing accurate real time data?