Dual Vacuum & Dual Camera Support

[scarylukas]

Hello
I have two Xiaomi 1C devices with ValeTudo support.

Integration MQTT Vacuum's Camera in my case is only able to handle one camera correctly. When I try to add a second camera (another entity) I get the message "already_configured". Is it possible to handle two cameras from two different devices?

[sca075]

Sure but you should rename one of the two vacuums. Normally Valetudo names the vacuums per model.
When the vacuums have a different "names" identifiers it should be possible to add the second camera. Or you can simply rename the camera entry id of the first and it should work fine too.

[scarylukas]

The names are different.

Vaccum1 - System ID "PleasedMutedWolf", Custom Friendly Name "AutoVacuum - 1Floor",
Vacuum2 - System ID "HandyTornDeer", Custom Friendly Name "AutoVacuum - 0Floor",

Changing the names to other random ones does not help.

Adding first vacuum

Adding second vacuum

[sca075]

@scarylukas I think I got the problem the is the camera name.. It could be that "-" under the name of the vacuum is creating the same camera entry_id.. can you please confirm if by changing the camera entity_id the problem is fix (honestly I taught this was fixed in one of the previous versions, if not I will move the discussion on the issues and I will try to fix it.

Thanks a lot for letting me know that ;)

[scarylukas]

@sca075 changing the camera entity_ID does not solve the problem

[sca075]

@scarylukas can you please show me the camera entity I mean it should be something camera.area38_0_floor_vacuum_camera is that correct? or the camera.area38_camera?? think this "_" is the problem. if the vacuum had vacuum.area38floor0_vacuum then you should have both vacuums as per I just tested that the vacuum.vacuum_rockrobo generate camera.vacuum.. I repeat this is the problem here... and as promised I'm going to fix it as soon. But as work arround..

[scarylukas]

[sca075]

Did you configured the second camera too?

[sca075]

@scarylukas just opened also the issue #268 for follow-up

[sca075]

@scarylukas I did some homework and I think the cause is that both vacuums have the "same topic" this means:
autovacuum - 1Floor = autovacuum - 0Floor so when I change the logic this will impact several users.

The camera use the data in this fields to generate the unique_id. Can you be so kind to check and eventually change those value uniquely for both vacuums this should allow you to configure both vacuums.

[scarylukas]

@sca075 I confirm. After changing the topic to a unique one I can add two vacuums. Thank you very much for your help