Meter Eastron SDM630 smiliarity

Hi Community,

we’ve noticed that the SDM72D-M-2 is technically identical to the SDM630 — both in terms of communication protocol and register mapping.

How should we handle this case?

@stefan.feilmeier — would it make sense to simply add a note in the README mentioning that the SDM72D-M-2 can be used with the existing SDM630 implementation? Or do you prefer that we explicitly duplicate the Code renaming it to SDM72D to make it clearer for users?

Regards

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IMHO adding a Note to README and Config would be the right choice to make compatibility clear. Factory-IDs can usually not be changed for backwards compatibility. We should not duplicate code if it can be avoided.

See [Edge] Add support for SDM72D-M-2 meter by Sn0w3y · Pull Request #3491 · OpenEMS/openems · GitHub

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