Mastertronic Essentials

[HeliJMK]

I am very excited to see if this works. I currently run aquapi in home assistant, and I got the essentials last July. Unfortunately, my unit has stopped functioning so I've had to send it back to get a replacement. As mentioned, their app is abysmal, so being able to control and see results through HA would be incredible.

 

[JonoH]

Sooo… my device won’t successfully complete a test.

That being said, whilst I wait for the manufacturer to provide guidance, I have decompiled their firmware and can make a HA integration that gives full control using their SQ3Lite DB.

You still need to gain ssh access to create a helper that will expose the important bits over their api.

For those interested, the useful stuff is in usr/mt and etc/systemd/system/mastertronic.service


I’ve reverted mine to stock whilst I await their reply

Any progress on this?

I know a lot of people have had issues with the Matertronic Essentials, so wondering if they have fixed these problems?

 

[HeliJMK]

Sooo… my device won’t successfully complete a test.

That being said, whilst I wait for the manufacturer to provide guidance, I have decompiled their firmware and can make a HA integration that gives full control using their SQ3Lite DB.

You still need to gain ssh access to create a helper that will expose the important bits over their api.

For those interested, the useful stuff is in usr/mt and etc/systemd/system/mastertronic.service


I’ve reverted mine to stock whilst I await their reply

Any updates? I'm on my second essentials unit after my first just lost the ability to test after 3 months. So far no issues, but we'll see if that lasts.

 

[Marc K]

That all sounds heaps difficult. Mine seems to be operating consistently now. I have had the odd test fail to start (but i think this was due to poor comms as i initiated the test remotely from the app). As far as results the nitrate and phosphate tests seem consistent with what i expect and there is minimal variation test to test - phosphate +/- 0.02/0.03ppm which is within range for me and nitrate +/- 5ppm at 20ppm reading levels again seems within expected range. The calcium seems to read high but it also is within 10% of my Hanna so i need to try my API test kit and see what it says.