I’ve been having a lot of success using the internal integration sensor to totalise several ‘W’ readings into ‘kWh’ readings and creating virtual sensors (updated via appdeamon) to keep track of daily/ weekly usages per bit of equipment in my house.
This is all working relatively as intended other than my hot water heater which has sporadic usage and AFAIK the integration sensor is not able to handle this in its current form.
From above the hot water heater was drawing ~3500W for around an hour so the energy should have totalised to be around 3.5kWh but instead it totalised an extra 100kWh immediately on usage (10:57) then went up steadily from there. Its like the integration sensor assumed there was the 3500W consistently from the last time the sensor was updated?
From my knowledge (which is probably wrong) we have the choice of Left, Right or Trapezoidal methods to totalise the value over the sample period, but no way to increase the sample period for ‘Spikey loads’. My integration sensor below with the sensor.6c_ct5_watts_2 reading in Watts
#Hot Water Heater
- platform: integration
source: sensor.6c_ct5_watts_2
name: hotwater_energy
method: left
unit_prefix: k
unit_time: h
round: 2