2021.8.0: Feel the energy ⚡️

[nickrout]

Companion app working here.

[sender]

Hi, thank you for replying. I have a kWh entry, have you seen the bottom screenshot? any other tip?

[nickrout]

You don’t have the required attributes.

[updog]

Yep, that’s what I ended up doing. Next time I should check if I’m complaining about a 3rd party integration or not first too!

[sender]

@nickrout

You don’t have the required attributes.

That’s helpfull? What attributes do I need? What do I mis where?

[nickrout]

Energy Management in Home Assistant

It has been said many times in this thread and in the 2021.8 release thread, but there are a number of attributes that need to be set. I believe that they are: state_class: measurement last_reset: '1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00' unit_of_measurement: kWh # or Wh device_class: energy Also make sure the entity is measuring energy not power. Power is the rate of consumption of energy. Think of it like this, your heater consumes at the rate of 1.5 kW (power) and in 3 hours uses 4.5 kWh of energy.

[sender]

Thanks for this. Where is this documented? I could not find that in the referred documentation?

[nickrout]

Here I think Sensor Entity | Home Assistant Developer Docs

[e-raser]

Sorry to bother again (3rd strike haha ):

I’m still stuck with the cost entity not showing up (2021.8.0: Feel the energy - #271 by e-raser).

Can anyone point me to the right direction? Maybe @tom_l ? I have a manual total cost entity I would like to select but it doesn´t show up, although it has all the needed attributes and I´ve really read all documentation available twice meanwhile

[nickrout]

@e-raser

although it has all the needed attributes

Except last_reset

[fantangelo]

There is a new cost entity that is automatically created when you enable the new Energy feature.
Check Developer Tools/Entities to see its name ( eg sensor.xxxxx_cost) and add it to your recorder section in your config file.

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

What Nick says, but also: do you Record the entities?

[Mariusthvdb (Marius)]

Btw, anyone seeing Co2 and Forecast.solar? Both are unavailable right now ?

[pwgdrx]

neither is available here either

[Philipd (Phil)]

I have the same problem. Any news ?

[ChrisHA (Chrisborell)]

Hello! Anyone know how to support Tuya switch with energy consumption? To integrate into ‘energy’

[nickrout]

Don’t ask in more than one thread please.

[nikd1 (Nick)]

@Kizovinh

olled back to core-2021.7.4 and it work normally, but no luck with core 8.0 and 8.1

same problem, had it all working but it stopped after a recent update.

[Steve61 (Steve)]

Update 8.3 fixed a lot of sensor issues:

Release 2021.8.3 - August 6

• Fix sensor PLATFORM_SCHEMA for ebox and enphase_envoy (@mib1185 - #54142) (enphase_envoy docs)

It was not only Ebox and Enphase installations. It fixed my Ecowitt weather station.

[pops106 (Jody Popplewell)]

You need to add an integration sensor for your Dryer_power sensor

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/integration/

Something like this;

sensor:
  - platform: integration
    source: sensor.dryer_power
    name: energy_dryer_kwh
    unit_prefix: k
    round: 2

Then add this into the utility_meter

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/utility_meter/

utility_meter:
  energy_dryer_day_kwh:
    source: sensor.energy_dryer_kwh
    cycle: daily

You will then end up with a sensor called energy_dryer_day_kwh which will add up your dryer_power sensor in W into energy kWh and reset each day.