Is there an PPG update time available in MQTT

[dlarue]

It seems Lux Power inverters will spit out sensor.lux_data_received_time and I was asked if PPG provides a similar time. There'a Home Assistant card called Lux Power Distribution Card( https://github.com/DanteWinters/lux-power-distribution-card ) which has a sample YAML setup which I hacked to pull data from PPG and YAMBMS. I often use the update time on the EG4 web page to tell me if the data is current so I can see it being useful here too.

Here's the display I'm currently working off of and sometimes I just have to watch some data to see if something changes to know everything is alright.

[HotNoob]

sorry, i keep procrastinating this one... trying to think of a solution. there is the mqtt availability topic, but that's pretty slow.

yes, i suppose a "heartbeat" feature can be added to the mqtt transport.
it'll be for v1.1.11

im not sure to the degree of implementation, ie check if data is frozen... for now can just send a timestamp.