Unable to see data published in MQTT in home assistant

[mwatz1234]

setup: I have home assistant and mosquitto setup as dockers and working (currently have other devices publishing to MQTT).
as of right now, I have RTLAMR2MQTT on a different raspberrypi as the home assistant\mosquitto pi to verify everything works before move the dongle and antenna over.

I have the rtlmar2mqtt setup and I see 2 of my meters are getting captured, its sending the info (or at least connecting) to MQTT, but I am guessing the topic isn't setup correctly so home assistant MQTT automatically add the meters.

I haven't setup the meter configuration in home assistant, but I assume it won't work until MQTT shows the meters.
https://github.com/allangood/rtlamr2mqtt#home-assistant-utility-meter-configuration-sample

RTLAMR2MQTT log

[2023-02-14 04:49:09] RTLAMR2MQTT Starting...
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Using "/etc/rtlamr2mqtt.yaml" config file
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] RTL SDR Device 0bda:2838 found on USB port 001:008 - Index: 0
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Configured MQTT sender:
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > hostname =>
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > port => 1883
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > username => 
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > client_id => rtlamr2mqtt
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > base_topic => rtlamr
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > availability_topic => rtlamr/status
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > tls => None
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Reseting USB device: /dev/bus/usb/001/008
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Reset sucessful.
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > topic => rtlamr/status
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > payload => online
[2023-02-14 04:49:09]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] Trying to start RTL_TCP: /usr/bin/rtl_tcp -d 0 -s 2048000
[2023-02-14 04:49:09] RTL_TCP started with PID 9
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] RTL_TCP is ready to receive connections!
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] Trying to start RTLAMR: /usr/bin/rtlamr -msgtype=scm,scm+ -format=json -filterid=METER1,METER2 -unique=true -symbollength=32
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] RTLAMR started with PID 14
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.729657 decode.go:45: CenterFreq: 912600155
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730186 decode.go:46: SampleRate: 1048576
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730225 decode.go:47: DataRate: 32768
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730251 decode.go:48: ChipLength: 32
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730278 decode.go:49: PreambleSymbols: 21
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730301 decode.go:50: PreambleLength: 1344
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730343 decode.go:51: PacketSymbols: 128
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730367 decode.go:52: PacketLength: 8192
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730404 decode.go:59: Protocols: scm,scm+
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730460 decode.go:60: Preambles: 111110010101001100000,0001011010100011
[2023-02-14 04:49:14] 04:49:14.730491 main.go:124: GainCount: 29
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] {"Time":"2023-02-14T05:49:56.515185838Z","Offset":0,"Length":0,"Type":"SCM","Message":{"ID":METER1,"Type":5,"TamperPhy":0,"TamperEnc":1,"Consumption":5852251,"ChecksumVal":42521}}
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] Meter "55619761" - Consumption 58522.51. Sending value to MQTT.
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] Sending MQTT autodiscovery payload to Home Assistant...
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > topic => homeassistant/sensor/rtlamr/meter_electric/config
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > payload => {"name": "meter_electric", "unique_id": "METER1", "unit_of_measurement": "kWh", "icon": "mdi:gauge", "availability_topic": "rtlamr/status", "force_update": true, "state_class": null, "state_topic": "rtlamr/METER1/state", "json_attributes_topic": "rtlamr/METER1/attributes", "device_class": "energy"}
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > qos => 1
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > topic => rtlamr/METER1/attributes
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > payload => {"Message Type": "SCM", "ID": METER1, "Type": 5, "TamperPhy": 0, "TamperEnc": 1, "Consumption": 5852251, "ChecksumVal": 42521}
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:49:56] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > topic => rtlamr/METER1/state
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > payload => 58522.51
[2023-02-14 05:49:56]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] {"Time":"2023-02-14T05:50:57.014302874Z","Offset":0,"Length":0,"Type":"SCM","Message":{"ID":METER1,"Type":5,"TamperPhy":0,"TamperEnc":1,"Consumption":5852255,"ChecksumVal":39988}}
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Meter "METER1" - Consumption 58522.55. Sending value to MQTT.
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > topic => rtlamr/METER1/attributes
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > payload => {"Message Type": "SCM", "ID": METER1, "Type": 5, "TamperPhy": 0, "TamperEnc": 1, "Consumption": 5852255, "ChecksumVal": 39988}
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > topic => rtlamr/METER1/state
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > payload => 58522.55
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] {"Time":"2023-02-14T05:50:57.769527136Z","Offset":0,"Length":0,"Type":"SCM+","Message":{"FrameSync":5795,"ProtocolID":30,"EndpointType":156,"EndpointID":METER2,"Consumption":250724,"Tamper":2312,"PacketCRC":20753}}
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Meter "METER2" - Consumption 2507.24. Sending value to MQTT.
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending MQTT autodiscovery payload to Home Assistant...
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > topic => homeassistant/sensor/rtlamr/meter_gas/config
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > payload => {"name": "meter_gas", "unique_id": "METER2", "unit_of_measurement": "ft\u00b3", "icon": "mdi:gauge", "availability_topic": "rtlamr/status", "force_update": true, "state_class": null, "state_topic": "rtlamr/METER2/state", "json_attributes_topic": "rtlamr/METER2/attributes", "device_class": "gas"}
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > qos => 1
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > topic => rtlamr/METER2/attributes
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > payload => {"Message Type": "SCM+", "FrameSync": 5795, "ProtocolID": 30, "EndpointType": 156, "EndpointID": METER2, "Consumption": 250724, "Tamper": 2312, "PacketCRC": 20753}
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sending message to MQTT:
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > topic => rtlamr/METER2/state
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > payload => 2507.24
[2023-02-14 05:50:57]  > retain => True
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Sleep_for defined, time to sleep!
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Terminating all subprocess...
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Kill process called.
[2023-02-14 05:50:57] Killing RTL_TCP...
[2023-02-14 05:51:02] Killed.
[2023-02-14 05:51:02] Killing RTLAMR...
[2023-02-14 05:51:02] Killed in the first attempt.
[2023-02-14 05:51:02] Sleeping for 300 seconds, see you later...

mosqitto log

1676354875: New connection from x:51765 on port 1883.
1676354875: New client connected from x:51765 as rtlamr2mqtt (p2, c1, k60, u'hass').
1676354875: Client rtlamr2mqtt disconnected.
1676354904: New connection from x:60599 on port 1883.
1676354904: New client connected from x:60599 as rtlamr2mqtt (p2, c1, k60, u'hass').
1676354904: Client rtlamr2mqtt disconnected.
1676354904: New connection from x:44911 on port 1883.
1676354904: New client connected from x:44911 as rtlamr2mqtt (p2, c1, k60, u'hass').
1676354904: Client rtlamr2mqtt disconnected.

MQTT is configured in home assistant like this

I can see the rtlamr2mqtt sending messages to the MQTT, but in home assistant I don't see them automatically added.
I am using home assistant docker, so I am not sure if I would need to do any additional settings.

[allangood]

Make sure homeassistant can read that topic, it may be a permission issue

[mwatz1234]

Turns out it was in home assistant the whole time, I didn't understand that they will be published in MQTT under entities and not devices. Forgot to respond, and want to now in case anyone else got it setup correctly but fails to find it in home assistant.