Need Data types and unit types for power, energy and current

[rajeshchintha]

Hello my first post!
I am using Cayenne C++ mqtt library for publishing energy meter data to Cayenne cloud and i am successful in implementing.
The meter is connected to RPi3 through serial usb converter and sending / receiving DLMS request/responses.
I have successfully tested simplepublish.cpp by giving Mqtt username and passwords, and it is working for voltage values.
Now i want to add widgets for power, current and energy but realized that they have not defined inside cayenneTypes.h

Is there any way out?

[ognqn.chikov]

Hello Sir and Welcome to the Cayenne Community,

You can use MQTT API and they have more full list with data types. Can you check the following topic:

Data types for Cayenne MQTT API

In light of some questions about how to pass data to Cayenne via MQTT, and knowing that the table in our documentation is incorrect/showing not-yet-released items, I wanted to share the following table to help with building virtualWrite() statements to pass data to Cayenne. virtualWrite() expects a parameter format like: virtualWrite(mqtt_channel_number, value, "type value", "unit value") You may have noticed that we have shorter functions like luxWrite() that only need two parameters becau…

Thank you