# Issue reading Tasmota power sensor
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781
**Category:** General
**Created:** [4 October 2023 23:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781 "2023-10-04T23:51:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@richiep](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/richiep)
#### Post date: [4 October 2023 23:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781/1 "2023-10-04T23:51:45Z")
Hey All.
I'm using the generic tasmota node to receive power consumption data from a CloudFree P2 power plug. However I'm getting an error message
On the tasmota console I see the values I'm looking for on the topic
"tele/dcPower/SENSOR"
However when this message is received by node red I get the following error.
"Invalid payload received for raw tasmota commands"
How can I set this up properly?
Thanks
Rich
```auto
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"id": "d9f7b04c97a810b3",
"type": "inject",
"z": "e620cc7c9fe4ff1c",
"name": "",
"props": [
{
"p": "payload"
}
],
"repeat": "5",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"topic": "",
"payload": "",
"payloadType": "date",
"x": 110,
"y": 220,
"wires": [
[
"e2db2758b650aca1"
]
]
},
{
"id": "e2db2758b650aca1",
"type": "Tasmota Generic",
"z": "e620cc7c9fe4ff1c",
"broker": "f627f7eebdf01372",
"device": "dcPower",
"name": "",
"outputs": 1,
"uidisabler": false,
"fullTopic": "",
"cmndPrefix": "",
"statPrefix": "",
"telePrefix": "",
"qos": 1,
"retain": false,
"subscribeToStat": false,
"subscribeToTele": true,
"x": 240,
"y": 280,
"wires": [
[
"3815599c2d0dba1f"
]
]
},
{
"id": "3815599c2d0dba1f",
"type": "json",
"z": "e620cc7c9fe4ff1c",
"name": "",
"property": "payload",
"action": "obj",
"pretty": true,
"x": 390,
"y": 280,
"wires": [
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"fa0930c40c3f2b5a",
"aa871b861d2bb4b2",
"48ddf82f7ed81abe"
]
]
},
{
"id": "fa0930c40c3f2b5a",
"type": "change",
"z": "e620cc7c9fe4ff1c",
"name": "",
"rules": [
{
"t": "set",
"p": "payload",
"pt": "msg",
"to": "payload.ENERGY.Power",
"tot": "msg"
}
],
"action": "",
"property": "",
"from": "",
"to": "",
"reg": false,
"x": 562,
"y": 245.000018119812,
"wires": [
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"212e028fa6b482e0",
"25493f978533d871",
"548840afeb91526b",
"8dfb171d05ece8a0",
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"3f5d3c10f66b08d5"
]
]
},
{
"id": "b6668680b4bb8827",
"type": "debug",
"z": "e620cc7c9fe4ff1c",
"name": "debug 178",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": false,
"complete": "true",
"targetType": "full",
"statusVal": "",
"statusType": "auto",
"x": 570,
"y": 160,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "f627f7eebdf01372",
"type": "tasmota-mqtt-broker",
"name": "",
"broker": "192.168.1.154",
"port": "1883",
"clientid": "",
"usetls": false,
"keepalive": "60",
"cleansession": true
}
]
```
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [5 October 2023 06:08 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781/2 "2023-10-05T06:08:00Z")
> [@richiep](#):
>
> I'm using the generic tasmota node
There seem to be two different "generic tasmota" nodes listed at [flows.nodered.org](http://flows.nodered.org).
There is a reported issue on github for one of them that it does not work on Node-red 3.1.
> [@richiep](#):
>
> On the tasmota console I see the values I'm looking for on the topic
> "tele/dcPower/SENSOR"
>
> However when this message is received by node red I get the following error.
> "Invalid payload received for raw tasmota commands"
If you had a more conventional setup with Mosquitto (or even Aedes) I'd say use an Mqtt-in node to subscribe to tele/dcPower/SENSOR and show us the result.
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### Author:  [@richiep](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/richiep)
#### Post date: [5 October 2023 12:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781/3 "2023-10-05T12:03:27Z")
> [@jbudd](#):
>
> If you had a more conventional setup with Mosquitto (or even Aedes) I'd say use an Mqtt-in node to subscribe to tele/dcPower/SENSOR and show us the result.
Yep, this is what I wound up doing. Works great!
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [19 October 2023 12:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issue-reading-tasmota-power-sensor/81781/4 "2023-10-19T12:04:25Z")
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