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Documentation fixes, and a few changes. (#11)
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### 4. I'm getting intermittent drop outs. What do I check?
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- First: **swap the USB power supply**. We have seen a number of the Emporia supply USB power supplies fail, which started out like this and the device failing.
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- First: **swap the USB power supply**. We have seen a number of the Emporia USB power supplies fail, which started out like this.
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- You may need to move the device closer to your power meter.
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- You may need to contact your utililty and ask them to reprovision the device.
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```
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api:
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encryption:
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key: "blah"
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key: "M3d8zXcnwM4Uo2fRybLjFUNVs+mnlC1XbEfnlvUNI2c="
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```
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- Just a security measure. It’s a shared secret between your device and Home Assistant.
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- Ensures all ESPHome API traffic (state updates, commands, etc.) is encrypted and authenticated.
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- Without it, someone on your LAN could spoof commands to the device.
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- ESPHome generates one if you don’t set it yourself.
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- To generate one manually:
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```
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python3 -c "import base64, os; print(base64.b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode())"
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```
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Looks like this in the YAML:
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```
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api:
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encryption:
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key: "blah"
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ota:
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password: "blah"
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```
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- Just a security measure. It’s a shared secret between your device and Home Assistant.
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- Used only when flashing new firmware over Wi-Fi (OTA updates).
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