It's normal. Home assistant requests the gateway version every 10 seconds as a test that the connection to the gateway is still OK.

Hi, @admins an advice about the MY_NODE_ID in the how to for the rs485 section would be helpful. I think, there are at least the double of the people trying for hours until they give up. Only some of them take the efforts to register and login here to get useful information... By kduino

@martinhjelmare Wow thank you so much. I've cleared the eeprom and now it gets node id 1. After removing the persistence file the sensor now shows on the web interface.