Dear Community, I have several power plugs that already track the consumption of my devices. Now I was wondering what is the best way to get devices into the energy dashboard if only the daily consumption is known. As an example my refrigerator. This one consumes 1.29 kW/h per day. What is the smart…

Hi everyone, I want to share now my solution because this is the easiest way to implement it I guess: template: - sensor: - name: "Refrigerator Energy" unit_of_measurement: "kWh" state_class: total_increasing device_class: energy state: > {% set kw…

[image] Powercalc - Virtual power sensors Custom Integrations In the last few weeks I have been working on a custom component to get virtual power sensors for your lights or other devices. It is stable enough right now to share it on this forum and make dedicated topic for…

Hi, I have already seen this post in the forum - but I am searching a solution without the need of “HACS”. Is it also possible?

You don’t need HACS to install any third party integration or card, it just makes it easier.

Hi Tom, thank you for your answer! I was thinking more of something without a “custom_components” to just stick to the default as much as possible. How else would you implement it in HA?

The utility meter only updates when the state of the entity it is monitoring updates so you can’t use that method. You can’t use the Riemann Sum integration to integrate power to energy either (same issue, only updates with state changes). Not sure how you would proceed with this using only core i…

Oh, that’s very sad. I thought I would not be alone with my problem. But is it so fancy to implement my requirements in the standard HA? I can not believe that nobody has had the same problem… everyone has installed HACS or a custom-component?

I guess you could do it with a template sensor if you really wanted to. This only does one state change per day, but you could modify it to rise linearly with a reasonable update interval. template: - sensor: - name: Daily energy refrigerator unit_of_measurement: "kWh" stat…

I’m doing something similar withe devices that have a constant power consumption. I add them all together but I’m sure you could adapt this. I have a template sensor for the power. It updates every minute because the state attribute changes. - trigger: - platform: homeassistant ev…

Adding static devices without entities into the energy dashboard (without HACS)

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